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Review: Maxtor Central Axis Business Edition

Don’t let the Business Edition moniker scare you away—you won’t need an IT tech to configure this 2-TB drive. The simple setup process had us serving in minutes, and the zippy transfer speed slurped our data onboard notably faster than the other drives tested. As with any high-level networking device, it required some trial and […]
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Rating:

7/10

WIRED
So quiet we thought we broke it. Prettiest girl in a prison-league beauty pageant. Drag-'n'-sort feature automatically categorizes your indiscriminate data dump.
TIRED
You have to power down and disassemble the case to swap out drives. Too many passwords and control panels—why do we need to use a program to launch a Web interface?

Don't let the Business Edition moniker scare you away—you won't need an IT tech to configure this 2-TB drive. The simple setup process had us serving in minutes, and the zippy transfer speed slurped our data onboard notably faster than the other drives tested. As with any high-level networking device, it required some trial and error to get everything humming along—but the Axis didn't feel like helping, displaying error messages that might as well have been written in C++.