Hi Steve It's mains-powered mate. A nice piece of kit to be honest, and I left the folders on it Andy referred to, since there are some relating to the Mac to make it usable on either OS. Jackie Email: cairnsplace@xxxxxxx Skype Name: Cairnsplace ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Nutt To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 5:14 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Maxter 750GB external hard drive Hi Jackie, Is it mains powered, or USB powered? Thanks. All the best Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jackie Cairns Sent: Tuesday 12 February 2008 16:34 To: Access UK Mailing List Subject: [access-uk] Maxter 750GB external hard drive Hi All Following Andy Logue's recent posts about a Maxter external hard drive he bought, we decided to go to our nearest branch of Maplin in Edinburgh today. We have been looking to increase the size on the drives we already have, and since it has been an absolutely gorgeous day, thought we would take a trip out. We have indeed bought the Maxter 750GB, though they sold it to us at £109.99, but I didn't argue over the few pounds more than Andy paid at his Glasgow store. Ian is currently copying our music collection over to the new drive, and it seems quite nifty. The only slightly annoying aspect of buying larger drives is that you lose a lot of space due to the formatting. For example, on this drive, the free space available is 698.whatever on a total of 750GB. That's just about 50GB lost. I've noticed the larger the drives, the more formatting space is used. Anyhow, this certainly appears to be a good buy if anyone is thinking of upgrading. Thanks Andy very much for bringing that to our attention. Jackie Email: cairnsplace@xxxxxxx Skype Name: Cairnsplace