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[KingSparta]

Today I Bought Two Maxtor One-Touch III Turbo Drives 1TB Drive (2-Each 500 Gig Drives)

I have always hated the fact that most fire-wire\usb drives don't have fans (some do) but until now maxtor has never had fans in there drives.

In the ads it never said nothing about a cooling fan.

Yesterday I was reading the "White Paper" on the drives, and found out that the Maxtor One-Touch III has a 30mm Cooling fan and the Maxtor One-Touch III Turbo has a 50mm Cooling Fan.

So if you have been planing on getting a Drive to put your music on or back it up on this drive has gotten some good reviews.

Since this drive can also be used in "Raid 0" 1TB Or "Raid 1" 500Megs you can be safe with "Raid 0" and 500 megs of music.

I plan to Use it as 1TB and back up the Music on the other drive, then back up any changes (most likely to the tags) every so often.

Anyone Buy Any Of These Drives Yet?

[Mr ChriZ]

Interesting, I purposefully went in search of drives that
didn't have fans!
I'm always interested in Minimum noise, although I have to say
my Buffalo drive is actually far from silent.  I've stuck it
on the end of a 6m USB cable tho so I could position it
as far away from my work/listening area as possible,
and now I barely hear it!
If it packs up in 6 months time with 1/3rd of my audio
video collection in it, then I'll let you know the fans were the
right way to go 

My ownly gripe with it, is that on newer computers the
drive operates at 30MB/s and on mine it manages 16-20MB/s.
Tempted to try putting a USB card in it.   The onboard USB 2.0
was a bit new and fangled when I bought the computer.

[KingSparta]

interesting, I purposefully went in search of drives that
didn't have fans!

Drives that don't have fans will burn up faster Due to Heat, that was one reason that the first Maxtor drives in a plastic case normally only lasted about two years,

Once SCSI drives carried a 5 year Guarantee, EIDE Normally had 3 years, there was no difference in the drive only the controller board.

Now days with larger drives with higher speeds 7,500 and larger drives heat increases and now if you notice they only put a 1 year Guarantee on them.

My other No fan Drives 4-each Maxtor 300 Gig drives with metal cases heat up real bad, i have a fan that blows across them and it keeps them cool.

To Protect Your Computers And Drives It Is Always Best To Have A Power BackUp System. I have two 1500 Rx Backup Systems And Both Also Have A Accessory Battery Pack, They Give Me About 4 Hours Of Power For My Computers, Drives, TV, Tivo, DVD Player, Printer, Cable Modem, Lights, etc....

[Mr ChriZ]

My 160gb 7200 Internal Hitachi drive used to get very hot inside the case
I moved it out on to the top of the computer case, and ever since it doesn't get that hot at all!

The buffalo drive's case is aluminium with the idea that it works
as a heatsink, does it work? Time will tell! (2 Year warranty on that one)

I rarely keep a drive for more than 2 years anyway,
as big becomes small.

I really can't stand the sound of fans though.
I've got two pretty quiet ones left CPU, and PSU, and aim to be rid of them
by xmas!

Already however I can hear the revs of the 7200rpm drives so it's
a loosing battle trying to achieve silence!