Maxtor Hard Drives Suck

[ohhenry59]

I have my Maxtor 30 gig for about 1 1/2 years. It now overheats, then starts making noises. It has only 1 year warranty. Has anyone had similiar experience or has gotten good life out of one?
Should I look for different brand like Western Digital?

[Lakeside]

Is that you (James "Henry"). Yes, Maxtor sucks, lol If that is you James Henry email me asap

Lakeside (Don)Lakeside

[netman]

i've always gotten pretty good service from maxtor drives. i've probably had more western digitals die on me but then i've probably used a lot more of them. i avoid fujitsu, conner and quantum. and i'm pretty sure that maxtor and quantum have now merged so we will see how the new ones go.

[Lakeside]

I had the exact opposite. WD drives never failed me, but Maxtor has. I had serious issues with Maxtor/Win2k

Lakeside

[Lakeside]

@poko Right back at cha'

Lakeside
Maxtor sucks...........

[netman]

Originally posted by pokopiko
@ Lakeside: thanks for the heads up on the Maxtor incompatibility with Win2K!

yeah, wish i had known that before i started installing them in all my win2k servers a couple of years ago.

[Lakeside]

That's why Maxtor sucks (cough*cough*)

Lakeside

[Phil K]

WESTERN DIGITAL. without doubt the best. Superb after sales service. Seagate - without doubt, ****E after sales service.
Maxtor ? To be honest, the one I had was fine.

[stevie_boz]

i've had quantum,maxtor,ibm,western digital and seagate drives.
out of them all i've had no probs with maxtor(now merged with quantum as netman said) and the ibm drives..in fact i've got a 40g Maxtor DiamondMax+ D740X ata133 7200rpm and an 80g IBM Deskstar 120GXP ata100 7200rpm at the mo..
as for the quantum fireball drives i had, they all suffered from overheating...the warranty replacements are in my 2nd pc...at the end of the day you take your chances with any hard drive..

[daveml]

You can always find someone who has had a bad anything.
Never trust any HDD to be perfect. Back up your data often.

[stevie_boz]

your right there m8!!....backing up data may be a chore but save's the tears if/when your hd decides to conk out..

[ohhenry59]

Maybe thats it pokopiko, It is suffering from overheating cause of lake of ventilation. There is no air movement where it is located which is right on top of another hard drive 3/16 inch clearance. I will try installing another fan.

[Thira]

I have recently purchased Western Ddigital and Maxtor drives. All have worked well. Also I have used IBM, Quantum, and Seagate HDD's. No problems with any of them. Personally my favorite are the IBM drives, even knowing that reports of some problems are out there.

[shadoe_phantom]

Maxtor works fine and is compatible with Win2K. Have several systems at work with it and no hassels. Current main system at home has it and no problems either (on winXP).
As mentioned before, there are always people who dislike something or can find fault (even when none really) with everything. I know many of the board mods/admins and other people are using Maxtor with no difficulties.
Guess it all depends how well you build your system and how you treat it. Proper airflow and cooling is always needed (especially the larger the HDD capacity gets and speed).
Anyhow, my 4 cents.

[ohhenry59]

Again, thanks pokopiko! I temporarely put a small 4 inch fan inside tower blowing on hard drives to test. It worked. Good thing I unplugged HD when I heard funny noise. It would of fried.I will look for HD rack with blower.