case sucks, drive is all right
Pros:
You can use the case to store small change, with complementary blue flashing lights! :-S
Cons:
Please do NOT use this thing for the original purpose (as an external HDD)!
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Author's Review
Like the other reviews, I strongly suggest not to buy this external HDD! Let me explain this a little bit: the enclosure sucks, harddisk itself is 'all right'.
The facts:
-> Already after a few months of using this drive as a backup storage (only about 1 hour a week!), at one day suddenly the blue front lights started flashing, and kept doing so!
-> Drive wasn't found by Windows any more, FireWire nor USB. Not on my desktop neither on my laptop. On this nice website I read about a possible problem with the enclosure.
-> So, despite of the sticker on the screws telling me the warranty would be VOID, I decided to try the HDD in another casing.
-> et voila! It worked flawlessly. So now I decided to never prefer price to the comments of friends again (2 of
my friends had also problems with a Maxtor external HDD)!
So thanks Maxtor, for my new small change box with blue flashing lights, it was really worth the money: NOT! :-S
