Office Max [officemax.com] has the 1TB Maxtor One Touch 4 Lite USB2.0 External Hard Drive for $180 - $45 when you checkout with Paypal [officemax.com] = $135 with free shipping. Thanks Selma.

Does anyone know if this drive is sata? Im on my phone so I can't get to many details.

Quote from phazein : Does anyone know if this drive is sata? Im on my phone so I can't get to many details.

seems like a slick deal, does anyone have any experience with this drive?

Seems like a good drive to expand the DISH DVR (722) storage capability or to be used with Mac OX X time-machine backups. Any experience with the noise level? Would not want it to hum around too much in the living room with the DVR.

directv dvr requires esata connection and I cannot find anything on the web that indicates this is an sata drive.

Price on Amazon [amazon.com] is $206, on Pricegrabber [pricegrabber.com] it's $220.

Seems like a good deal to me!

Quote from mchouse : directv dvr requires esata connection and I cannot find anything on the web that indicates this is an sata drive.

Lucky me, the Dish DVR 722 only needs USB 2.0. ;-)

Quote from phazein : Does anyone know if this drive is sata? Im on my phone so I can't get to many details.

I just looked at a lot of sites and can not find out what type of HDD this is...

Quote from kamaaina : Seems like a good drive to expand the DISH DVR (722) storage capability or to be used with Mac OX X time-machine backups. Any experience with the noise level? Would not want it to hum around too much in the living room with the DVR.

Review from Amazon:

I do a lot of work with video and audio files, meaning I often have to move many very large files around and keep them in accessible areas. I had a Seagate 300gb external hard drive to help with this, but I maxed that out. I then went out and got this Maxtor 1 terabyte drive to help me gain some more disk space easily.

My other external drive is a Seagate and it worked flawlessly and quietly - it had not occurred to me that this new Maxtor would do any differently. However, right from the start I ran into problems. Every time my computer "slept" the Maxtor drive would disconnect. When I woke my PC back up, I would literally have to unplug and replug the Maxtor drive in before it would be recognized again.

The drive can get VERY loud, to the point that it's quite annoying. Yes, I realize it's a full terabyte but to be honest I'd much rather have a few smaller drives that are quiet, vs having this constant HUMMMMMMMM in my work area.

Also, just having the Maxtor connected to my PC causes all sorts of problems. If I am in Word (or really any other application) and go to save or open a file, it will sit there whirring the external drive even though I am loading and saving from the C or D drive! It's not even "using" the Maxtor but it feels a need to power it up before it gives me my drive options. It wouldn't be bad if this was a five second operation - but sometimes I have to wait for a full, long 30 seconds to 1 minute before I get my save dialogue to wake up again. I know one minute sounds like a short period of time but when you're trying to make a quick change and go on to something else, to wait for a full minute while a not-even-being-used drive thrashes around can get quite frustrating.

The Maxtor website and forums aren't much help either. I did try to use them and really just poking around in the control panel with various sleep and power settings is what I had to do to get this even slightly functional.

I really do appreciate having the space. Having a terabyte of storage online is quite nice. But in terms of THIS drive, I wouldn't recommend it to others.

I got the whole way to the submit confirmed payment page in Paypal and there was still no indication of any discount so I canceled.

Is this YMMV ?

Never mind.

I did it a second time and the eligibility statement was there.

Thanks!

If it is not SATA, I can find someone else who can use it.

Thanks to everyone looking up to see if it's a sata drive or not. At this price I think I will order it anyways even if its not an sata.

Ok now that I am on my pc I have read the deal better. PPCO is like live's cashback.

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seems like a solid deal 2 me, I wish this worked with my Comcast DVR

Everyone saying it's a solid deal..how is this thumbs down?