Maxtor OneTouch hard drive - 120 GB - USB 2.0

I bought this a couple of years back when I realised that the hard drive in my laptop was starting to slowly disappear and I didn't want to feel too restricted. There were quite a few different external hard drives on the market then and still are, most at pretty reasonable prices, though what made me decide to buy this one is the fact that its made by what I believe to be a well respected company (Maxtor), I decided that I'd rather have a well made and really reliable drive made by a well known, proper brand that offers slightly less storage than one that offers more storage (disk space) but ... more

I bought this hard drive a few weeks ago to use with my laptop as I needed more memory. I was somewhat apprehensive about buying an external hard drive as I am not particularly good with computers and assumed I would do something wrong and it wouldn't work! It comes with an instruction booklet and an easy step installation sheet. I found it really easy to set up, literally loading the disc. From then on, you just plug the hard drive in and attach the USB cable to the computer when you want to use it. I have stored pictures, video and Word documents and all have been saved fine and are easy to ... more

First of all for anyone who doesnt want to read all of this review... to sum up this product is really quite awesome. The reason behind buying this product was very simple, the pcs we currently have in the house are getting quite old now 3 years, and a bit dodgy to say the least.. the final straw came when my brothers pc was barely turning on, the pc contained all his a level, and first year university work, which was needed to be saved.. So off we popped to special reserve and bought this little hard drive for 115 pounds, the box is cetainly very inviting, read the instruction booklet ... more