Maxtor External Hard Drive
I got a new external Hard drive today. The Maxtor OneTouch II. The drive looks real nice, but the base that ships with it doesn't fit on my PC very well, so I just placed the drive on it's side. I'll add some sticky feet to the base this week-end so it won't slip off my PC case ~ which has a rounded top.
The hard drive uses the USB interface to connect to the PC. The data sheet indicates a sustained transfer rate of 34 MB/sec, and a bus transfer rate of 480Mb/sec.
The drive has 100GB of space with an 8MB cache size and spins at 7200 rpm with a 9mS seek time.
Best of all, the included software has an auto back-up option which I have been missing for a while on my system. Although I do try to back-up often, this software will insure that I always have a saved version of my site.
I took the fast approach and just set it up to auto-save my web page changes. I took that approach because I really wanted to use my computer tonight. However, over the coming week I'll set it up to just dup every thing I need to recover a system crash.
This page provides more details on my computer system; interfacebus: Desk Top PC
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Correction as of 3/08 this link points to the current PC I'm using;
http://serial-phy-interfaces.blogspot.com/
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