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Maxtor Shared Storage Plus Drive (300GB)

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Average user rating: 2.0 stars out of 22 reviews Back to product review
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"Maxtor offer exactly what I am looking for"

by pkh on June 4, 2005

Pros: Fast, 300GB, FAT32 USB attachment drive, Price....

Cons: Can't think of one at the moment...
Summary: I nearly bought the Linksys or Buffalo. Lucky I hold off after reading the review in your site. They have slow transfer rate and only accept Linux format USB drive. The Buffalo is expensive too. The Linksys is not cheap either after you add an external 300GB USB drive. I need no fancy stuff just plain shared network storage space with password control. It is fast enough not just for music but WMVHD as well. No stutter what so ever. Share DVD is a piece of cake (I tried it both at home and office). Slight stutter only in extreme conditions like playing 1080P WMVHD with wireless notebook. I don't know the transfer rate but if it can do High-def files it just can't be slow. The power to attach a Fat32 USB drive is way better than its competition also (plug and play my USB2 2.5" pocket drive and 128Mb thumbdrive right away). And the price is much lower than the 160GB Buffalo. I just simply love it.
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Time stamp bug is fixed by firmware. Maxtor is great with real prompt email support.

I test it with 2 usb drives attached and it works perfectly with NTFS format drive as well, something I thought not possible before (may be it is in the firmware fix, not really sure).

Also I ran an extreme test using 3 wireless computer (2 laptops and 1 desktop) playing 3 different DVD stored in Maxtor's own hard disk. They all run perfectly with no hicup at all. This is a major surprise to me.

The support of double-byte fonts is also seemless. Something I thought Buffalo can't do according to cnet's review. All these make Maxtor a perfect 10 winner with no competition.

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