In the past few years, hard drive capacities have grown to humongous highs and the price per gigabyte continues to drop. It is pretty amazing that someone could go to a local store and buy an internal or external hard drive with a few hundred gigabytes of storage at a price less than $0.50 per gigabyte.

Maxtor has a line of full-featured external hard drives, the OneTouch 4 Plus series, that offer a massive amount of external storage space and a suite of utilities to simplify the backup and recovery of your files. Maxtor offers models with capacities from 250GB all the way up to 1TB, and they have sent over the latest and largest unit for us to review, the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus 1TB External Hard Drive.


Before taking a look at the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus 1TB External Hard Drive provided for review, let's look at some published data on it taken from the Maxtor website...

Features & Benefits:

» Automated OneTouch™ Backup
» Dual Interface
» 1TB Capacity
» 7200 RPM, 16 MB cache buffer
» Maxtor SafetyDrill™
» Sync your files
» Easy to Use Interface
» Maxtor DrivePass™ and encryption
» Simple setup

Specifications:

» Capacity: 1TB
» RPM: 7200
» Cache Buffer: 16MB
» Interface:
   » Firewire 400, IEEE 1394a, iLink and SBP-2 compliant
   » USB 2.0 and 1.1 compliant
» Sustained Transfer Rate:
   » Firewire 400 43MB/sec
   » USB 2.0 33MB/sec
» Bus Transfer Rate:
   » Firewire 400 400Mb/sec
   » USB 2.0 480Mb/sec
» Dimensions:
   » 2.5 x 6.0 x 6.75 in
   » 63.5 x 152.4 x 171.45 mm
» Weight:
   » 2.5 lbs
   » 1.11 Kgrams
» AC Voltage: 100-240 VAC
» Input Frequency: 47-63 Hz AC
» Compatibility: Mac and PC