Maxtor Hard Drives Suck

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alanwalton

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hard drives

I have had problems with 3 maxtor hard drives.Will not buy another until the
reviews are better.
Now use Ibm desk star which are now under the Hitachi banner.
The 4 drives work just great.
 
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jmtrash

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As with everything, heat is the enemy and maxtors, particularly the new ones, run hot. I have some type of cooling on all my hd's as a matter of course and have never had a problem with any of my maxtor hd's. Currently I prefer segate which seems to run the coolets and quietest of any hd I've seen.
 
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Coolhandflex

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On my 3rd Maxtor now. This one is an 80gb Sata drive. Very quick, quiet and robust. Maxtor for life.....
 
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scarecrow

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Was using Maxtor all the time, but currently I'm having problems with a Maxtor HD (160G SATA)- bad sectors on sight. Had another faulty Maxtor drive (80G ATA) some 4 months ago (the replacement works well), so I might give them a rest and switch to Seagates.
 
spottydog

spottydog

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I am currently using a Maxtor 80 gig SATA drive: No probs
Seagate 40 gig barracuda no probs
and a 20 gig western digital no probs
I have also got various hds in 3 other pcs and have never had any bother in 20years.... APART from, an IBM Deskstar which died in 2 months. so no more IBM drives for me :D :D
 
serjer

serjer

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can i'm forced 2 maxtor coz it's the only hdds currently common here after quantum hdds bite the dusts...however a friend of mine just bought a 120gb samsung hdd,he said it's performance was with par with a seagate barracuda i think....
 
Dnd4evr

Dnd4evr

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I just had 2 hd go in the last 2 weeks. One was a IBM Deskstar. I purchased my Deskstar about 4 years ago, but 2 years in on a 3 year warranty it died. They replaced it and 2 years later the replacement died. I believe Hitachi owns the Deskstar line and I don't plan on buying one.

The 2nd drive to die was a 80Gb Maxtor. When I checked the warranty it was 20 days past. That bites :mad:

I have had good with Seagate and Western Digital so far. I bought a new WD 200Gb drive that will free up 2 smaller drives to replace the ones that just died.

I heard Seagate is going to a 5 year warranty. Has anyone else hear this?
 
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Leiw

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I have (had^^) 3 maxtor drives :

1 external : working ok but if I don't use th option : Lock archive (prevents it from damage) on rared archives it will eventually give me an error : The header ??? is corrupt

1 sata 200gb : working ok for some time but then gives me write-read errors every 2 seconds

1 IDE 7200 rpm : The only one working without any problem

conclusion : stick to the good ol' IDE hdds^^
 
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eddieb

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It's like anything else. Some will have problems with Maxtor drives, some won't. I have had problems with Western Digital drives, but never with Maxtor. Go figure.
 
Duracell

Duracell

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Leiw said:
1 sata 200gb : working ok for some time but then gives me write-read errors every 2 seconds
Click to expand...
the failure could be related to the SATA controller driver too;

Greetings from
Duracell
 
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