Maxtor OneTouch 300GB External Hard Drive Review Author: Daniel Topler Date Posted: December 6th, 2003 SLRating: Bottom Line: If you need to backup or transfer large amounts of data between machines then you need an external disc drive. With a whopping 300GB the Maxtor OneTouch 300GB External Hard Drive could be the ideal solution. But what about design, features, cost and performance? Find out in our official review....... Article Navigation Introduction Design In the Box Features Performance Software Conclusion Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >> Discuss This Article

Software

Maxtor has continued it’s tradition of including Dantz Retrospect software with their External drives, but this time they included the Express version, not the full version. I couldn’t really see the difference between the two.

Basically, Retrospect compresses the files you are backing up, and then sends them off to the drive. I decided for daily use not to use Retrospect, simply because there is really no point of backing up any data on a 300GB drive!

Nevertheless, the software is powerful, very easy to use, and very fast.

I should mention that when you press the OneTouch button to use Retrospect to backup your data that you already selected to backup automatically, it only backs up the files that have changed since the last backup, which really does speed up the process.

Conclusion

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