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"Honest support admits major bug" on by ranch.dk
Pros: Easy to set up and use, slick design
Cons: Too many bugs
Summary: Might suffice for home use, but not for business: The timestamp on folders and .exe files is constantly updated all by itself. This creates problems when backing up the drive or running programs that check your license using the timestamp of some folder. This alone makes the product unusable to us. Minor issues to european users are: timestamp format defaults to us, european setting disregarded. Access privilege settings disregarded. Without the bugs it would have been a great product. Maxtors phonesupport deserves credit, though. I waited 20 secs tops and a very knowing and honest guy told me that the timestamp issue was a known bug. A solution was not in sight for weeks or maybe even months. He was not even sure whether a firmware upgrade could solve the problem...
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"Does exactly what it's supposed to" on by rafe
Pros: Easy to install and manage
Cons: Network interface too slow
Summary: I Installed this hard disk on my home network. Very easy installation. Solid, no-frills Windows software allows each network user his or her own private set of folders as well as access to shared folders. The capability to automatically send files to pre-set directories based on type (photo, music, document) is clever, but I can't find a need for it. There are no other fancy features, like FTP. Also, the drive doesn't seem to ever spin down despite my setting the sleep timer on the management page, which is a minor annoyance. My biggest gripe is that for a drive of this size, 300GB, the 100MB/sec Ethernet link is on the slow side; I would greatly prefer to see a device like this with gigabit Ethernet.
On the whole, I like this drive. It does exactly what I expected it to and it does so without requiring a lot of management or frittering around. -
"Maxtor offer exactly what I am looking for" on by pkh
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.
Updated
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. -
"Multifunction printers not supported" on by kevin438
Pros: Easy setup, lots of storage
Cons: does not support multifunction printers
Summary: My reasons for getting this were pretty minimal - home use storage for music files. When I read another users review about the ability to attach a printer for all computers to share, that was an extra bonus to seal the purchase.
The setup was amazingly easy and the use for music files works well. The disappointing part was finding out that it does not support multifunction printers. Given that many if not most home office users have a multi function printer, this seemed like a pretty big ommision in the product literature (only to be found in the knowledge base for trouble shooting printer problems). -
"Recommended" on by rpwallin
Pros: Simple, works well, performance
Cons: None really
Summary: To setup, just plug it in to a USB port (other connectivity options exist - they have different models), your computer will load the drivers, and load the software. The software is simple. You can set it to make backups on a schedule or doa one-time, you can select what to backup, and you can delete old backups. These backups are stored in some kind of proprietary format; in other words, you need the software to restore. Now, you can use this unit just like a hard drive and drag and drop to/from it as well. Performance is pretty decent. I would recommend this product.
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