Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 500 GB

The Personal Storage line of external hard drives comes from Maxtor, who were acquired by Seagate last year. As a subsidiary of Seagate, Maxtor is currently the world's third-largest manufacturer of hard disks. What does this mean to the consumer? It means that you're getting a high-quality product supported by a top world leader in computer storage. The Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 is a perfect example of why the Maxtor product line is so popular. Storage with the Maxtor is as simple as it can get - you will be copying files and folders to this drive within minutes of getting it out of ... more

This hard drive has many things over other drives on the market. Firstly, being made by Maxtor you would be expecting something special. And I can happily say that it does outclass many of the other drives out there. It is a 7200rpm drive, and so file transfers are as quick as on an internal hard disk. While I'm on the topic of performance, there is one little issue. The drive will power itself down after a period of inactivity, which is great if you like to save energy, and probably good for the lifespan of the drive, but upon accessing the powered down drive, you'll need to wait for it to ... more

Started off very well. Plug and play as promised, via USB. Very easy to use, quick access : very simple to create folders and upload all those things you want to backup (you do keep backups, don't you?!). So on went all my MP3s, pictures, software, in case of a disk crash on my PC No problems for the first 8 months. Then it stopped working. Looked like it just wouldn't power up (green light only faintly flickered). Try to take back to shop under 1 year limited warranty, but would only offer replacement with NO data transfer. The word 'limited' is the key here. Overall very dissatisfied. A so ... more

Maxtor 500gb External HDD I bought this product a month ago and have found no problems so far. it came well packaged in its box and was extremely easy to set up. all i did was: 1, unpackaged it, 2, pluged the included usb cable into my laptop and to the unit, 3, plugged the power cable into the wall and to the unit, 4, it came up onto my computer 5, i copied my itunes, videos, masses of corsework, very quickley and easily. also when i want its easy to remove and take to school and to other peoples computers to move files around etc. It also comes with a little stand to stand it up with. I ... more

Its really a very good thing for al those who love to store their valuable memories at one place. storing our memories in DVD takes lots of time as well as money too. and also it the DVD is used so many times its become faded and a chance for us of losing out data stored in the DVD. MAxtor personal storage is the best and quite affordable solution for that. I have purchased my first Maxtor storage device few months back from PC World and can purchase another one if the currenct one will be filled. I can easily store lots of videos of my little one and memories with my families and my favourate ... more