Maxtor Personal Storage 3100 User manual

The Easy, Economical Way to Add Storage
The Maxtor Personal Storage 3100 external hard drive provides
instant storage to hold digital photos, music, and data files. Ideal for
the home and office, it’s simple to install—just plug the external drive
into an available USB port on your Windows PC* and immediately
get additional storage. Use the extra capacity to free up the space on
your PC or to add more of your favorite files—every 100GB of storage
can hold up to 75,000 digital photos† (JPEG-normal), or 1,650 hours
of digital music† (MP3), or 7 hours of DV video..
The Personal Storage 3100 offers a dependable Maxtor hard drive
for easy add-on storage to hold your important documents and
precious memories. It works with both the fast USB 2.0 interface
and USB 1.1.
Maxtor Personal Storage
™ 3100
EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE
80GB 100GB 200GB 250GB
HIGHLIGHTS
• Easy installation
• USB 2.0 and 1.1 compatible
• USB 2.0—up to 40 times
faster than USB 1.1
• Compact design
• Powered by a dependable
Maxtor® hard drive
• Windows PC compatible

Maxtor Personal Storage 3100
Easy
Plug in the drive and gain additional
storage!*
Fast
Up to 40 times faster than USB 1.1, USB 2.0 improves
the bus transfer rate up to 480Mb/sec.
Compatible
USB 2.0 interface is backward compatible with virtually
all existing USB 1.1 ports. Works with Windows PCs.
* Windows 98SE requires internet download
Included in the Box
• Maxtor external hard drive
• USB cable
• External AC power adapter
• Installation instructions
System Requirements
• Pentium II-class equivalent
processor or later
• Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, Professional or XP
• Available USB 1.1 or 2.0 port
• 64MB RAM or more as required
by operating system
• Internet connection (for Windows 98SE)
Capacity Model Number
Personal Storage 3100 80GB M01B080
100GB M01E100
200GB M01E200
250GB M01H250
Drive Configuration
RPM: 7200
Cache buffer: 2MB — 80GB
8MB — 100GB, 200GB
16MB — 250GB
Interface
USB 2.0 / 1.1 compliant
Performance
Average seek time: ≤ 9.3ms—80GB model
Bus transfer rate USB2—480 Mb/sec
(maximum):
Environmental Specifications
Operating temperature: 5º C to 35º C (41ºF to 95ºF)
Physical Specifications
Dimensions: 1.75 x 6.0 x 8.75 inches
Power Requirements
AC input voltage: 100-240 VAC
Input frequency: 47-63 Hz AC
Specifications
*Windows 98SE requires Internet downloading a driver from www.maxtor.com
†Calculations based upon digital (JPEG) photos, MP3 files. File capacity figures provided by Jon Peddie Research. For details, see www.jonpeddie.com.
For purposes of measuring storage capacity, a gigabyte (GB) means 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.
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