The OneTouch III Turbo Edition is a rectangular box think half-size toaster , colored a bit like a reverse grayscale Oreo, with light gray sides and a dark platinum center. Measuring 6. The back is far busier, supplying a USB 2. The box's side panels protrude slightly beyond the bottom and top of the unit and pull double duty as feet the drive somewhat resembles a thick, sturdy I beam.
Said panels are covered with a slightly rubbery coating, which makes for a sure grip while transporting or moving the drive. Because the side panels aren't as tacky as some footpads on the bottoms of other drives, the drive is less likely to stick to the surface it's sitting on after a long stationary period or in a particularly hot environment--an appreciated design flourish. When you first install the software and the drive under Windows, you'll be asked if you want to format the drive.
The drive comes formatted for Mac OS X. What this really means is to partition and format it--an attempt to shield the end user from complexity. It was just more than we needed at the moment by a couple hundred gig and thus a couple hundred dollars. We can use the space for extra backups. Further, we'd heard nasty things about the reliability of some maxtor GB drives, but we weren't sure if the drives in these units would be the same family IDE vs SATA.
However, the choice was made. The first thing of note about these drives is that they are first multi-platform not mac-specific piece of hardware I've ever seen that prioritized OSX. The unit is very compact, just a little bigger than two small firewire enclosures jammed together.
It runs pretty quiet, but there is a soft fan noise that is audible. A couple of the reviews of this very new item complained that there was no way to verify that the RAID-1 was actually working.
After we got it set up and running pretty easy and quick , it became obvious that there was no way to verify that there was any RAID going on. On the back of the unit, there's a little tamper-evident sticker over one of the screws on the case saying that opening the case voids the warranty. However, who the fuck cares about a warranty?
I care about my data, period. I don't want the unit replaced if it goes bad: I want my data back. I'm not likely to send the unit with the drives in it off to get repaired if the drives go bad. If something like this went bad, we would open it up to try to fix it immediately, we're not going to put it in the mail and hope it comes back all worky with our data intact.
You've got to be kidding me. It is actually a little offensive that they put the sticker on there. I understand that this is a consumer level device and isn't built to be user-servicable, but this is also a RAID-1 device where the whole point of that type of machine is to protect my data.
We decided to try to open it up and yank the power on one of the drives and see if : 1 the device complained in an obvious way to let us know that something was wrong and 2 the device continued to work with only one of the two drives functional. But with this device, it was a big hassle to test the RAID. It was not terribly easy to get apart initially. It was hard to tell what would break and what would give. It is a tightly assembled plastic case, with a number of little plastic prongs sticking down into the metal casing that made it hard to get apart.
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