Don't Buy A Maxtor OneTouch II
Posted by Jason Sun, 28 May 2006 23:10:00 GMT
I bought a Maxtor OneTouch II from Yodabashi Camera in Akihabara while I was in Tokyo.
The drive worked great for more than a month. I soon made the stupid mistake of making it my only main place to store my data. Soon after, it seemed to die; it was recognized as a USB device, but not as a USB mass storage device and Firewire didn’t work at all. But whenever I turned it on, the hard drive seemed to be working fine. It made perfectly healthy hard drive noises, and it did not click at all.
Instead of screwing around with the warranty (which most likely would have resulted in the loss of my data), I decided to extract the drive and try it as an internal hard drive. And sure enough, it works. So it was just the enclosure that was defective. The moral of the story – buy the enclosure and the hard drive separately! And buy two – I was lucky that I didn’t lose any data, but next time I probably will. I plan on buying another enclosure and hard drive purely for backup.
A couple relevant links:
A review I found expressing the exact same problem I had
Taking apart a Maxtor OneTouch II
