Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 ext. HD. Yea or Nay

I saw the ad for a large office supply store and they had this drive for $69 over this weekend.

I went Maxtor's website and they showed no Mac compatibility. I wondered why, so I dropped tech support a line. This is the response I got, it includes some info on chipset as well:

"Dear Nick Stearns:
Thank you for sending your MAXTOR E-mail inquiry.
Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 drives come pre-formatted for NTFS and these drives are only supported on Windows 2000 and XP computers. However, you can use a 3200 drive on a Macintosh computer if you format (erase) the drive with the Mac OS X Disk Utility. These drives have Prolific chipsets in them and we have only seen compatibility problems with some systems using the Intel 82801 USB chipset."

Has anyone used one of these drives successfully?

I have a backup boot drive, if I get this one it would be primarily for archive storage.

Not a necessity but seems like a real good deal, unless it won't work.

Thanks for your replies in advance.