MAXTOR ONE TOUCH III 1TB 1000GB EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE on MacBookPr0?

Need more Ext HD storage for iTunes on my MBPro Is anyone using a MAXTOR ONE TOUCH III 1TB 1000GB EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE this drive on MacBookPro, is it any good? Advise

The Maxtor one-touch models, comes with a EMC Retrospect startup item to run its backup software. I tend to disable this functionality, as it often is not updated for the operating system actually being run and can cause problems with setting up. Instead, I use Shirt-Pocket Superduper for backing up. I'm not sure the Maxtor is bootable on a MacBook Pro, but when you first get it, you'll want to reformat it with Disk Utility to have a GUID partition for optimized backing up for the MacBook Pro.
If you plan to use it with a Windows machine, you'll not be able to use it for full backing up, but at least data files will store on it, if you format it FAT32. Your alternative is still to format it GUID, but get MacDrive by Mediafour for your Windows machine to be able to read the drive, or network it use the built-in networking of the Mac as described here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=19652
If you aren't, well the above paragraph is just extra non-essential info!

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