ThinkPad R40e 2684 - C 2 GHz - RAM : 128 MB - HD : 30 GB - CD-RW / DVD - Win XP Home - 14.1" TFT 1024 x 768 ( XGA )

ThinkPad R40e 2684 - C 2 GHz - RAM : 128 MB - HD : 30 GB - CD-RW / DVD - Win XP Home - 14.1

ThinkPad R40e 2684 - C 2 GHz - RAM : 128 MB - HD : 30 GB - CD-RW / DVD - Win XP Home - 14.1" TFT 1024 x 768 ( XGA )
Manufacturer: IBM
Product Type: CE

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Product Description
The IBM ThinkPad R40e notebooks deliver exceptional processing power at affordable prices. ThinkPad R40e notebooks offer the ideal blend of portability and essential features. These easy-to-use notebooks are perfect for your mobile computing needs. The ThinkPad R40e notebooks are one of the most versatile and affordable ThinkPad offerings to date. The ThinkPad R40e notebooks work right out of the box. Productivity and ease of use are enhanced for novices as well as experienced users.

Average customer rating: 2.0

functions well
Warning! Do NOT buy this product!
Trash, expensive trash, DO NOT BUY - ZERO STARS
Yikes!
Failed within weeks of purchase

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Manufacturer: Maxtor
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000BW32IY

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Designed for creative professionals who need the disk striping speed of RAID 0 for intensive disk-access applications or the security of RAID 1 for automatically mirroring data, the Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition provides an easy to use wizard interface for configuring your system for optimal performance. With the most highly integrated storage, backup, security and drive management software on the market today, the Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition is perfect for creative professionals who need a high performance, large capacity storage solution. Faster throughput means faster workflow, and that means greater productivity for creative professionals who work in digital video, photography and graphic arts. The user-configurable Maxtor RAID solution streamlines performance to enable multiple streaming without dropping frames critical in quality video editing. The Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition supports both Mac and Windows platforms. It arrives preformatted for the Mac and includes the Oxford FireWire 924 chipset for ultimate Mac performance. Professional digital video and demand seamless, real-time access to huge, data intensive files Cache Buffer - 16MB Average seek time - 9.0 ms Integrated Interface - FireWire 800, IEEE 1394b, iLink up to 800MB/sec data transfer rates, FireWire 400, IEEE 1394a, iLink up to 400MB/sec data transfer rates, USB 2.0 and 1.1 - up to 480 MB/sec data transfer rates Maximum Sustained Transfer rate - FireWire 800 91MB/sec, FireWire 400 43MB/sec, USB 2.0 33MB/sec System Requirements - Apple G4 processor or greater, Mac OS X (10.2.8 or later), Pentium III, 500 MHz equivalent processor or higher, Windows 2000 Professional, XP Professional or XP Home Edition, 128MB (256 recommended) RAM, CD-ROM drive, Internet connection for system updates

Customer Reviews:

functions well.......2007-06-08

The storage capcity is great. However one wishes all the backup associated programs were explained somewhere

Warning! Do NOT buy this product!.......2007-05-21

Should be zero stars.

Like many other people, my drive failed within months of purchase. I chose this product because of its RAID capability, which turned out to be moot as the device lost its partition - so the redundant drive was meaningless.

Now to deal with their warranty service. They want the UPC off the box - from 6 months ago! Sure, I keep every freaking box for everything I buy - I just had to move all the furniture out of my house so I could make all these boxes fit in here. I'm sitting on a box right now.

I can have the lost data professionally recovered, and thus void the warranty, or I can send the device to Maxtor/Seagate (IF they'll let me do it with only a receipt, and not the UPC) and they'll send me a crappy refurb, no data: "Maxtor has no responsibility whatsoever with regard to any content or data..." Awesome. I've got a lose/lose situation here.

I will NEVER buy anything branded Maxtor or Seagate again.

Trash, expensive trash, DO NOT BUY - ZERO STARS.......2007-05-08

ZERO STARS - DO NOT BUY. Broke in 5 months. Clicking sounds followed by complete malfunction.

Yikes!.......2007-04-29

I bought several of these RAIDS from Amazon. I bought two 1TB, one 500GB, and one 1.5TB. The 1TB RAIDS worked out of the box. Formatted to NTFS. The 1.5TB RAID set up to RAID1 started showing corruption on the file system within a week.

I deleted the partition and set it up as RAID0 striping figuring I would use on of the other 1TB RAIDS as a true backup of each other. The 1.5TB formatted to about 80% and hung for 2 days. I tried again and it hung at 80%. I tried formatting with my laptop. Same problem with the 80% stall. I used my new dual-core 3 GHz Biostar 6000 box to format via firewire. Again it stalled at 80%.

I went to the vendor and exchanged it for a new one. I went home and started the formatting fiasco again. It hung at 80% on my external DMZ box and again on my regular workstation. I returned the 1.5TB drive and opened a ticket with Maxtor anyway. From the feedback I've been getting on the ticket I'm not too confident that a solution will be forthcoming.

What I did find out while surfing the web looking for some tips on these drives is that there are many reported issues with them. First, when there is a failure, your data is gone. It seems the controllers on these are not what I would want to put critical data through. I'm reading about hard drive failures and unsuccessful attempts at users trying to recover their data at the cost of losing the warrantee.

Maxtor put an HPA area on the drives that cripples attempts to use a replacement drive. No reason for this from what I can see other than looking at their webpage and seeing their data recovery services. After reading forums today I haven't had time to mount the drives with any of my forensic packages to see the internals of the HPA. I can also see no reason to have an HPA on the drives at all. The controller should be handling all RAID functions. RAID should be hot swappable! The "I" in RAID being inexpensive is hard to swallow when paying full retail top dollar for a drive. I don't see a need to image a physical drive and then have to image the HPA block by block to get past the "swap protection".

Looking a little deeper and I came across an attorney webpage looking for owners of these drives for their participation in a class action lawsuit. Search under Sklar Law Offices. Seems there is something brewing. I'm certified in forensics, security, and Cisco networking with 15 years combined experience in both the NYPD and technology and I may just give them a call to really pick one of these drives apart.

Failed within weeks of purchase.......2007-04-11

In twenty seven years of buying computer gear I've been pretty lucky, until I bought this device. I purchased this solely because it could be configured as a Raid-1 device, to give me greater data safety by having it mirrored. All looked well, and for about 5 weeks I carefully moved all my data from internal drives to the Maxtor. About 5 weeks after purchase it failed - horrible hard disc noises, and then the pc couldn't "see" the disc.

At this point the worst ever customer service kicked in. Basically Maxtor's view is that they will replace the drive for you, but they won't do anything about your data, and won't let you try and do anything about it either - if you do you void the warranty and you are then left with nothing.

After it failed I noticed a lot of recent poor reviews appearing about this product. It looks like it's a lemon, and when coupled with Maxtor's very very disappointing attitude I would recommend that everyone stays as far away from this company as they possibly can. Don't make the same mistake as us reviewers - learn from it and shop elsewhere.

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