Keep reading in this forum and you find people who are trying to recover files from such a device. Do not rely on such as "backup".
The units do not fail often. And any unit you pick, you will be able to find someone with a failed unit.
Bob
I'm looking for an external hard drive to back up my pc and I'm looking for advice on which brand to buy. I was considering the Maxtor One Touch 2 but after reading the thread about how it fails I'm not thrilled with it. Can anyone offer advice? I need around 200-300Gb. I'm running Windows XP home but might get XP professional when I get a notebook (soon).
Sorry if this issue has already been addressed, I'm new to this forum and haven't had a chance to go thru most of the existing posts yet.
Thanks
Barbara

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