Replacing Hard Drive in MAXTOR One Touch External Drive

[colinr]

Hi,
I have a 300 gig Maxtor One touch external drive. I works fine but I
need more space.
Rather than buying a whole new external drive, I would like to switch
the actual hard drive for something bigger, like 500Gigs while keeping
the same housing.


I've opened the housing and see the current drive is called 'Maxtor
Maxline II'.

Does anyone know what the significance of 'Maxline 2' ? Is it more
durable?

More importantly, does anyone know if I can switch the drive with a
standard Maxtor 500 gig HD with no negative side effects. I don't care
if the 'one touch' button doesn't work.

Any help or suggestions are appreciated.

Cheers!

 

[Arno Wagner]

Hi,
I have a 300 gig Maxtor One touch external drive. I works fine but I
need more space.
Rather than buying a whole new external drive, I would like to switch
the actual hard drive for something bigger, like 500Gigs while keeping
the same housing.

I've opened the housing and see the current drive is called 'Maxtor
Maxline II'.

Does anyone know what the significance of 'Maxline 2' ? Is it more
durable?

It is e near-line drive, i.e. not for constant access. It is intended
as tape replacement or general archival storage. When used this way
it is supposed to be more reliable. But since Maxtor's external cases
overheat the drives and since even the MaxLines produce more heat than
the competition from, e.g., Samsung or Seagate, I think you can forget
about that supposed higher reliability.

More importantly, does anyone know if I can switch the drive with a
standard Maxtor 500 gig HD with no negative side effects.

Don't do that. even if it works, the MaxLine II drives do produce
less heat than the regular Maxtor drives. At least the ones I have.

Whether it works from the POV of the new drive being larger, I
have no idea.

Arno

 

[Odie]

Hi,
I have a 300 gig Maxtor One touch external drive. I works fine but I
need more space.
Rather than buying a whole new external drive, I would like to switch
the actual hard drive for something bigger, like 500Gigs while keeping
the same housing.

I've opened the housing and see the current drive is called 'Maxtor
Maxline II'.

Does anyone know what the significance of 'Maxline 2' ? Is it more
durable?
No.


More importantly, does anyone know if I can switch the drive with a
standard Maxtor 500 gig HD with no negative side effects. I don't care
if the 'one touch' button doesn't work.

You should be able to.

But my advice would be to ditch the whole shebang and get a decent
external housing with active cooling. Not a 40mm fan - 80mm or larger.

OneTouch = One Stuffed. Poor product.


Odie