Maxtor’s recent press release sounded exciting: Could 1 Terabyte (1,000 Gigabytes) in an external hard drive actually be true? Well, yes and no. The total capacity of the OneTouch III is indeed 1 TB, but it is achieved by assembling two 500 GB hard drives into one enclosure that is double the size of conventional external hard drive products.
Toms takes apart both the Maxtor and Lacie products and see’s what they are made of. They are both roughly 931GB and offer necessary backup software but cost close to $900! Read all about them here.