Seagate OneTouch 4 Plus 1 TB External Hard Drive - Retail

Garbage - Stay away

Strengths: none I can think off.... see weaknesses

Weakness: No on/off switch. HORRIBLE support. Drive failure. Partition disappeared. Loud. Awkward size. Did I mention HORRIBLE support

This is my 3rd TB drive. I figured Maxtor had never let me down in the past. Within two weeks I had a drive failure. Me second drive, the partition just vanished. STAY AWAY from this garbage. There are far better drivers, better thought out, for the same price that won't let you down. For your peace of mind, sanity and DATA - stay away!!

No Problemmo

Strengths: First External I didn't have to format -it's already NTFS. Faster than the published benchmarks which had already placed it in the top of the pack.

Weakness: Customizing the one touch backup does not allow me to include everything that I'd want. Recovery image requires a fat32 partition?!

In going for ease of use some more experienced users will be disappointed or most likely use other software products that they like better. However, what's there is easy enough to use if it meets your needs. The "drill" recovery scheme while good in theory leaves something to be desired in execution Still a good drive when purchased at a good price.

2nd time is a charm

Strengths: Large Drive, Great price.

Weakness: Software does not work well on a mac. First drive failed.

I bought this drive at Staples last week. It is a simple hard drive. I have two other Maxtor drives and figured this would be about the same. Physically it is a great looking drive and is relatively fast using firewire or usb 2.0. When I first got the drive I installed the software on my Mac and the software would not recognize the drive to reformat it. I have a portable Maxtor One Touch 4 drive...

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No problems so far

Strengths: Fairly fast with lots of connection options. Compact size. Massive storage. One-touch backup button.

Weakness: Odd shape/footprint, so it won't stack with other external drives. It will need to stand by itself which might take up some desk space.

I've used it for about a month now with no problems at all. I don't use the built in software because I already had a license of FileBackPC. But I do nightly encrypted backups with that software and True Crypt and have yet to experience any trouble at all. I would recommend this drive without reservation.

It's all downhill

Strengths: None

Weakness: No on/off switch. Software on drive, and failed to operate. 45 minutes of tech support/software download to get nowhere. I've send it back but now cannot uninstall the software.

This thing is a mess. See the weaknesses above. Why don't these people spend the extra $10 to do the whole thing right. I've used Maxtors for the last five years, but no mas. It's not worth the exercise.

Very flimsy

Strengths: Great capacity. Fast.

Weakness: Price isn't great. The case is very cheaply made. Had this drive for about 2 months when it fell 2 feet from my desk onto the carpeted floor. The motor for the drive broke leaving it useless.

There are other products for the same price that are better constructed. Durability is important when backing up data and this has none. For the amount of damage that was caused from such a small fall makes it hard to argue otherwise. Of course it wasn't covered by the warranty. So now I have no hard drive and lost all my files. Many of which are now lost forever.