Advantages: Value for money, massive storage, great design, decent speeds! Disadvantages: Bright flasing blue/red/purple light on the front.
My laptop is fairly old but has served me very well (it's a Toshiba incidentaly) , it has about 27GB of storage space which nowdays isn't enough for all my work as well as movies and music.
I decided to look at some external hard drives so I could store everything that I wanted and more. This particular model appealed to me, not just because it was the cheapest, but because it had very good specs (1TB of storage to say the least) and was a Toshiba. A very good brand that I trust.
So I forked out the cash and had it delivered to my door. Opening the box, I saw that it was slightly longer but overall smaller than it had apeared online. This was fine as I am not bothered about space.
It comes supplied with everything you need to get it running and took me about 2 mins to read the quick start guide and get it going. I then decided to ...
Advantages: Huge storage space, Looks beautiful, Very easy to install and use, Loads videos very quickly. Disadvantages: None really.
drives available and is designed very well.
5/5
Ease of Installation
The Maxtor comes with an install disk but does not require it, driver files are also contained on the hard drive itself and the simple ?plug and play? system that this allows means that files can be easily stored and accessed from any laptop or computer you plug it into. The Maxtor 1TB is easy to install and should take no longer than ten seconds.
5/5
Ease of Use
The Maxtor is very easy to use, simply plug it into the USB port and away you go. It is recognised as a regular mass storage drive and has no special interface, making it very easy for those who are not technophiles. You can simply drag and drop or copy and paste files into it, the Maxtor is truly the definition of easy to use.
5/5
Instruction Manual
My Maxtor 1TB came ...
Advantages: ram, processor speed, design, screen, price Disadvantages: none so far
for most people.
It has a built in webcam too which gives quite a good picture.
The mouse could be better, it goes a little mental at times but nothing to worry about and it does its job.
The keyboard is fine and easy to use. Battery life is not fantastic, mine lasts about 2.5 hours.
Its lightweight too. Though a largish laptop, its quite portable due to its weight.
What I also like is its fast start up and turn off. Very nice. Its easy to use too. Vista runs smoothly.
The machine cost me £379 at PC world, refurbished. I couldnt have got better for the price and specifications given. You wont find 4 gb RAM and core due 2 processor with 250gb hard disk at this price. I dare you to try. Maybe in a few years.
Very pleased with what I found.
Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit, Sp1)
- Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 (2.00GHz, 2MB L2 Cache ...
Product Information for "Acer Altos easyStore 1TB" »
Processor / memory
Processors Installed
1 x Intel 80219 600 MHz
Max Supported Qty
1
RAM Installed
DRAM 256 MB
Flash Memory Installed
8 MB
Manufacturer's product description
The Altos easyStore is an intelligent network storage solution for small office, medium office, and home network environments. Easy to setup and easy to use, the Altos easyStore provides 1 TB of storage capacity to share files among mixed OS users through network. It also features an automatic client backup and system recovery system, ideal for protecting valuable data and quick system and data restore. The Altos easyStore further completes the data protection with support for RAID Levels 5, 10 and 1 and user name or group level of password protection.
