FS: 1TB & 600GB Maxtor External Drives FW400/800/USB 2.0

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extra twice

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I have 2 1TB drives and 3 600GB drives for sale. All 5 drives are brand new in the box, still shrink wrapped. I picked them up at a local computer store that was going out of business.

I am selling the 600GB for $300 and the 1TB for $475. plus shipping from TX, no tax




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More about the drives...

Designed for creative professionals who need the disk striping speed of RAID 0 forintensive disk-access applications or the security of RAID 1 for automatically mirroring data, the 1TB Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition Storage Array provides an easy to use wizard interface for configuring your system for optimal performance.

Housing two 3.5" hard drives, the Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition is perfect for creative professionals who need a high performance, large capacity storage solution. Faster throughput means faster workflow, and that means greater productivity for creative professionals who work in digital video, photography and graphic arts.

The user-configurable Maxtor RAID solution streamlines performance to enable multiple streaming without dropping framescritical in quality video editing.The Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition supports both Mac and Windows platforms.

It arrives preformatted for the Mac and includes the Oxford FireWire 924 chipset for ultimate Mac performance. Plus when you need it most, you can boot your Mac OS X directly from the drive. And to keep things simple, its wizard interface makes it quick and easy to format for Windows
 
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you're using your first and only post for a sale? can we get some pics of the actual items? thanks
 
Not to sabotage what you're doing ET, but in case anybody is interested.... Costco has the 600gig Maxtor for $285 after a $50 rebate and the 1TB for $450 (no rebate).

Just looking out for my peeps. :)
 
Yeah, I figured I would catch some heat for trying to sell on a first post. I run a web site and know how much it bugs me when people do that.

Good looking out; those prices at costco are right on the money. Thanks for letting me and everyone else know. You can still save a bit of money with mine if you pay sales tax to costco in your state.
 
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extra twice said:
Yeah, I figured I would catch some heat for trying to sell on a first post. I run a web site and know how much it bugs me when people do that.

Good looking out; those prices at costco are right on the money. Thanks for letting me and everyone else know. You can still save a bit of money with mine if you pay sales tax to costco in your state.
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Of course not everybody will be a member of Costco and then I DID forget about tax, which can be a killer.

Best of luck.
 
I saw these in CompUSA today for $479 before the $50 rebate. I was considering buying one and the sales guy hinted that I should "check the net for reviews" before purchasiing. Apparently they are hit and miss on reliability. I have a Maxtor 1 Touch drive that got TERRIBLE ratings but has been nothing but flawless... It seems that the people having trouble are using FW800 on a Mac...


ash =o)
 
AshG said:
I saw these in CompUSA today for $479 before the $50 rebate. I was considering buying one and the sales guy hinted that I should "check the net for reviews" before purchasiing. Apparently they are hit and miss on reliability. I have a Maxtor 1 Touch drive that got TERRIBLE ratings but has been nothing but flawless... It seems that the people having trouble are using FW800 on a Mac...


ash =o)
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i've heard not much but bad things about the one touch Maxtors. I've had three. 2 250gig FW 400's on my Mac's and another that was 120gig ( I think). That one crashed, but I think it was because i kept switching it back and forth between my Mac's and a PC. Over and over again and I think it was formatted for PC. Finally it crapped out. I then reformatted it for PC and it was working fine last month when I sold it with my PC. The other two have never skipped a beat and they were cheap at Costco....even two years ago when i bought them.

So, I know people have problems with them, but they do with just about anything. i always thought LaCie was the way to go, but even those have tons of horror stories.

I would say at the prices these drives are right now, buy two or three and just re-copy everything between at least two drives like I do. Poor-man's raid. I always copy my main folders about twice a day to another drive.

NOTE. I remember back in 1998 when my editor was editing my feature we looked at editing on his Avid, but I couldn't afford it because we needed something ridiculous like 10 gigs, so we went with the old flatbed. He paid $3000 for a 3 gig drive if I remember. That's f'in hilarious. Now, you can get 2tb of FW drives for $1k. Crazy.
 
AshG said:
I saw these in CompUSA today for $479 before the $50 rebate. I was considering buying one and the sales guy hinted that I should "check the net for reviews" before purchasiing. Apparently they are hit and miss on reliability. I have a Maxtor 1 Touch drive that got TERRIBLE ratings but has been nothing but flawless... It seems that the people having trouble are using FW800 on a Mac...


ash =o)
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Thats because Macs are CRAP!! but lets not open up that can o worms.

I found a 1TB for 450 the other day
 
insanityfw said:
iNOTE. I remember back in 1998 when my editor was editing my feature we looked at editing on his Avid, but I couldn't afford it because we needed something ridiculous like 10 gigs, so we went with the old flatbed. He paid $3000 for a 3 gig drive if I remember. That's f'in hilarious. Now, you can get 2tb of FW drives for $1k. Crazy.
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Yeah I still have a 9gb drive that cost me $2000. I would be willing to part with it at half price if anyone is interested:dankk2: :crybaby:
 
Yeah, it seems pretty much everyone on here is set for video storage. I use the 600GB with my MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo. I love it.

The couch also doubles as a seamless background for flash photography. :huh: But unfortunately its not on sale.
 
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If you are going to make a post like that in here you might want to back it up with some evidence... "one touch turbo" is a different product from "one touch" for those of you interested.

If you do reply, please post up a negative review for me. :beer:


http://www.maxtorsolutions.com/en/catalog/OTIII_Turbo/

AshG said:
I saw these in CompUSA today for $479 before the $50 rebate. I was considering buying one and the sales guy hinted that I should "check the net for reviews" before purchasiing. Apparently they are hit and miss on reliability. I have a Maxtor 1 Touch drive that got TERRIBLE ratings but has been nothing but flawless... It seems that the people having trouble are using FW800 on a Mac...


ash =o)
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HDD failure is not system specific and MOST large post houses are running at least one post room on a PC using an AVID Symphony or the like.


ash =o)
 
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