![]() ![]() It is actually a little offensive that they put the sticker on there. If something like this went bad, we would open it up to try to fix it immediately, we're not going to put it in the mail and hope it comes back all worky with our data intact. If the brain in the RAID goes bad, at least I've still got the drives. I'm not likely to send the unit with the drives in it off to get repaired if the drives go bad. I don't want the unit replaced if it goes bad: I want my data back. However, who the fuck cares about a warranty? I care about my data, period. On the back of the unit, there's a little tamper-evident sticker over one of the screws on the case saying that opening the case voids the warranty. After we got it set up and running (pretty easy and quick), it became obvious that there was no way to verify that there was any RAID going on. It runs pretty quiet, but there is a soft fan noise that is audible.Ī couple of the reviews of this very new item complained that there was no way to verify that the RAID-1 was actually working. ![]() The unit is very compact, just a little bigger than two small firewire enclosures jammed together. MAXTOR ONE TOUCH 3 SOFTWARE MANUALThe drive came preformatted for OSX and the manual has its OSX instructions first. The first thing of note about these drives is that they are first multi-platform (not mac-specific) piece of hardware I've ever seen that prioritized OSX. Further, we'd heard nasty things about the reliability of some maxtor 300GB drives, but we weren't sure if the drives in these units would be the same family (IDE vs SATA). It was just more than we needed at the moment by a couple hundred gig and thus a couple hundred dollars. The 1000GB (2x500GB) version was kind of expensive ($830 USD), but not ridiculously so per GB. After some agonizing, we ended up buying the 1000GB version with RAID-1 because the main point is that we need data safety. We purchased the wrong one, got it home, plugged it in, verified it was the wrong one and returned it. It turns out the 600GB version comes in two flavors, distinct between the packaging in just a couple of words, with one flavor only doing RAID 0, the other doing both RAID 0 and RAID 1. So we made the decision to buy the 600GB version of this first and didn't read the packaging really closely at Fry's. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |