There are many features that come in a Maxtor external hard drive. It provides a support for USB 2.0, Fire wire 400 and 800 and other various devices. The capacity of the Maxtor hard drive that you may get ranges from 100 GB to 500 GB. A hard drive with a capacity of 500 GB relatively has a cache size of 16 MB. Moreover a Maxtor hard drive has backup software that may be utilized in case of problem like crashing of the hard drive.
The hard drive also comes with the ability to be locked by a password. This would ensure complete safety for your data and information that are stored on the drive. You can also roll back the system if any problem arises; thereby undoing any harmful changes that might have got implemented. The data between various computers can be synchronized easily with the help of this device. One other advantage of this device is that the data transfer is quick. And it also does not produce much noise while operating. The most surprising factor is the price; with so many features combined, it still comes at a very affordable price.
Initially you would not face any issues while installing maxtor external hard drive as compared to the products of other brands which need to be formatted and installed at the time of installation. The computer very easily recognizes the hard drive. Large amount of data can be transferred and that too at a very fast speed. For instance it merely takes twelve minutes to transfer data worth 30 GB in size. One more benefitting factor is that you are not required to install any other software if you want to transfer data between different computers.
The maxtor external hard drive proves extremely useful if you are using media files like videos and audio files. This drive is also compatible with Macintosh computers.