Rio 500 64 MB USB MP3 Player (Purple)

Rio 500 64 MB USB MP3 Player (Purple)
Manufacturer: Rio
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
The latest Rio 500 is the hulk of MP3 players. The Rio 500 is the beefed up version of its predecessor, Rio PMP 300, delivering twice the amount of RAM, Mac and PC support and numerous other capabilities you asked for! 64MB RAM pre-installed in the Rio 500 means two hours of playback of your favorite digital quality jams or up to 32 hours of spoken content! Rio features integrated Rio Audio Manager software for digital music management that lets you search, locate, create and playback your music in one application and also gives you direct access to RioPort.com, the premier site for MP3 music, and other sites through an integrated Web browser. You can even convert your personal CD collection into MP3 files to store on your PC and transfer to your Rio 500.The Rio 500 is also the first MP3 player to ensure spoken audio playback. Listen to your favorite novels, learn a new language, hear news stories and lectures! The Rio 500 offers a set of features specifically designed for voice audio use including a bookmark control that lets you stop playback and resume later exactly where you left off.
Amazon.com Product Description
Special Offer--Get a Free Rio 500 from audible.com: Sign up for a one-year commitment to either the BasicListener or PremiumListener plan at audible.com and get a free Rio 500 digital audio player. You'll also receive a free cassette adapter--a $20 value. Visit audible.com and sign up today.

Download in style! This purple Rio 500 stores up to two hours of digital-quality music and up to 32 hours of spoken audio programs. Rio 500 is also the first portable digital-audio player to support both the Macintosh (iMac and G3) and Windows 9X platforms. Access thousands of music and audio files at RioPort.com and over 16,000 hours of Audible.com audio programs. Instantly create, customize, and mix your favorite music and audio selections on your PC or Mac for playback. This lightweight unit plays skip-free music, as there are no moving parts. It's the perfect companion for active people on the go.

The Rio 500 contains an updated hardware design featuring easily accessible controls and a backlit display that shows song/book title, artist, time, and more. And it uses just a single AA battery for up to 13 hours of continuous play.

Average customer rating: 1.0

Maxtor One-Touch not reliable.
Read this and maybe save yourself some grief!

Maxtor T01G300 300 GB Onetouch III External USB 2.0/FireWire Hard Drive 16 MB Cache

Manufacturer: Maxtor
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000H9FKVS

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Product Description

Your digital data, photos, videos, email, documents, and music is precious to you. The Maxtor OneTouch III solution gives you a simple, reliable, and automated backup system that can be managed with a touch of a button. This handsome unit plugs into your personal computer via a USB or a FireWire 400 port. Simply plug in the drive and the Maxtor OneTouch III appears on your desktop. Easy to use installation and backup software will have you up and running in minutes. Designed based on customer feedback to fit into your daily lifestyle, the Maxtor OneTouch III solution includes automatic synchronizing of data between your laptop, home, and work systems. We even designed it to easily stack additional storage drives if you need to add more later, without any additional stands or clutter. For added security, the Maxtor OneTouch III solution includes both the Maxtor DriveLock and System Rollback features. The System Rollback feature rolls back your Windows PC system to a better point in time, such as before a virus attack, while keeping your data current. Creates historical backup versions with comprehensive Windows' system and data restore to a point in time System Rollback rolls back your Windows PC system settings to a better point in time while keeping data current Soft-touch over-mold enables stable grip for transport 3.5-inch ATA Hard Drive Integrated Interface - FireWire 400, IEEE 1394a, iLink, SBP-2 compliant, USB 2.0 and 1.1 compliant Cache Buffer - 16MB Average seek time - 9.0ms Sustained transfer rate (maximum) - USB 2.0 33MB/sec, FireWire 400 43MB/sec System Requirements - Pentium III, 500 MHz equivalent processor or higher, Windows 2000 or XP, Mac OS X (10.2.8 or later), 128MB (256 recommended) RAM or more as required by operating system, CD-ROM drive, Internet connection for system updates

Customer Reviews:

Maxtor One-Touch not reliable........2007-05-23

I have two One-Touch III 500G drives attached to different computers. After a month of good performance, both of them started to unmount unexpectedly. Sometimes during computer sleep, and once in the middle of a session where I lost all my work.

When this happens, the heads appear to be stuck in park postition, because they won't even go to "ready" state when disconnected from the computer. The platter spins, but the sound of a head moving is missing.

I have been able to coax them back to life by bumping them on the table while the disk is spinning. Once I hear the head moving again, I can connect the drive and it works for awhile.

Tech support is either oblivious to this problem or they aren't admitting to it. I've talked to two support people and I've given up on that route. Sending them back is a lost cause also because the drive is sure to work after being bounced around in the mail truck. And, since I've got two of them that exhibit the same problem, there's a strong probability that this is a design flaw.

Read this and maybe save yourself some grief!.......2007-05-05

Before you buy this hard drive, I suggest that you read what happened to me:

I bought this Maxtor drive last December. It lasted about two months and stopped working. The drive failed its own, self-contained, diagnostic test. I contacted Seagate (the company which provides warranty service for Maxtor drives) and they offered to exchange the unit. They offered no advice whatever as to how I might correct the problem without returning the unit (e.g., update driver, update software...) which suggests that my complaint was a known issue. I returned the unit and got another one in the mail.

The second unit lasted two months and then it, too, malfunctioned: It repeatedly behaved as if it had been disconnected and reconnected all by itself. It interrupted my work with an AUTOPLAY message asking me what I wanted it to do. I replied, "TAKE NO ACTION." Five minutes later it did it again. And again I replied, "TAKE NO ACTION." This happened endlessly, every five minutes all day long. The only way I could get my work done was to turn the drive off completely. (How ironic is that? It works perfectly... but only when it's turned off!) I contacted Seagate again and for the second time, I got the impression that my problem was a known issue. No effort was made by Seagate to get more details or to offer some suggestions to cure the problem myself without a return.

I'm writing a book. I use this drive to back up very important Word files, almost two thousand pages (and still growing). I have to have a reliable drive to do this. Now, for the second time, I must "shred" all the files on the drive. That takes a long time because the drive is 75% filled. Then I must send it back, being careful to follow Seagate's strict rules about how to pack it ("no newspaper, no bubbles, no peanuts...") This takes a lot of time. I should be working on my book, not exchanging my Maxtor drive!

Another complaint: the first drive was a generous 320 GB (not 300). It was a promotional deal that I was glad to get (20 GB free!). With the first exchange, I received a replacement but the replacement was not 320GB.

The NEXT time I get the hard drive will be the THIRD time I'll have to install it, get it running properly and install Ghost.

Seagate seems unable to provide dependable warranty repair for this Maxtor drive. Furthermore, the drives they send in exchange are not reliable. I really wouldn't be a bit surprised if the third drive also failed.

Think carefully about my experience and know from the beginning what you may be getting into! Do you have time to waste?

Mike B

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