05-05-2008, 11:29 PM
Maxtor's been a problem for me lately. Their OneTouch Plus external line, with FW & USB2, is set to sleep the drive after a certain small number of minutes. My SuperDuper clones keep failing due to not being able to connect to the drive. The minimal Mac utils they ship with it can't reset that sleep time. Their "solution" is to use a Win XP machine to set the sleep time to "never", then re-format for Mac. Sheesh. There are many posts in the Seagate support forums and across the web reporting this being a problem for people. I'd avoid their enclosures - the bare drives don't seem to have that issue.