Perhaps I’m just not suffused with the CEDIA spirit, but Maxtor’s OneTouch 4 external hard-drive range just doesn’t look as “vault-like” as they’d have us believe it’s been designed to resemble. Still, that’s pretty much the only criticism I can fling at the backup/sync range so far – from the spec list, at least, they seem to have cornered the market for secure storage with more options than you can shake a stick at.
External storage is forever getting cheaper, so manufacturers are having to think outside of their USB2.0-enabled boxes to try to draw attention to their wares. Network Attached Storage is a little cooler, but has yet to make a great impact on the home market. Maxtor must be hoping their Fusion drive is the thing to change all that – while it’s primarily an extra 500gb of space for your videos of Christmas morning, photos of tense family holidays and totally legal music downloads, it’s also a straightforward and simple way to share that media with friends and family.
Fusion lets you set up secure folders to be shared over the internet, inviting people via email. CrunchGear has tried this feature out with their review unit, so if you’re interested in managing your own web server it’s definitely worth a read.
Maxtor Fusion Hands-On [CrunchGear]
Dude, John of CrunchGear just got his mitts on the Maxtor 1 terabyte (TB) of storage! That’s a whole hell of a lot of storage space. The Maxtor software plays nice on both PCs and Macs – he’s thoroughly happy with that. The box is fairly attracted with plastic cladding and a brushed metal face with inset RAZR-esque buttons. John talks about other things such as running iTune catalog from remote drive over wireless network and other things…so read up.
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