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5 Aug 3rd, 2008 

5 Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful

Advantages:
Simple design, technically up to date,

Disadvantages:
Could have 5 years of warranty

Recommendable Yes:

Akos81

Akos81

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I bought it 3 days ago for a quite reasonable price in Argos-60ł(+2GB usb stick free).
I did not experienced the overheating issues. I was copying 250GB data from an internal drive for more than 2 hours. At the end the internal drive was really hot but the maxtor was just warm.
Luckily I did not go for the more expensive brother (onetouch 4) for further details read CNET reviews
I think as it is an external drive it should NOT be on constantly, I generally eject the hardware from th pc and it simply turns itself off (completely)<= I like this function.
Comes with 3 years warranty. Specs: 500gb, 7200rpm, 16MB/500GB cache buffer
Just go for it...
Data sheet: http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/maxtor/en_us/documentation/data_sheets/m axtor_jade_3_5.pdf 

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manlybeach 04.08.2008 11:12

Welcome to ciao!

Secre 03.08.2008 21:59

You really need more information on this to get the higher ratings...Lissy

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