Maxtor Personal Storage 3000XT

Maxtor's new Personal Storage 3000XT is the world's highest capacity external hard disk drive. At 160GB and operating over a FireWire (IEEE 1394) interface, this gives consumers the capability to store large amounts of audio, video, graphics, image, web and presentation files.With Maxtor's Personal Storage 3000XT users can easily store, on a single drive, volumes of data or digital content from tapes, floppies, CDs, DVD-ROMs and the Web. Also, music and video files can be saved in their original uncompressed format without compromising audio or video quality.

Sharing and transferring files is quick and easy since both Mac and PC systems equipped with IEEE-1394 ports immediately recognize the drive.

The 3000XT is useful for storing:

• Pre-press print files
• Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files
• Uncompressed, high-resolution scanned photos

The 3000XT is also perfect for storing:

• Uncompressed digital video (5 hours = 65GB)
• Digital photos of the kids (2000 photos = 2 GB)
• Music collections (5,000 MP3 songs = 20 GB)
• Video games (20 CD-ROMs = 13 GB)

The Personal Storage 3000XT has a retail price of $399.95. www.maxtor.com