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bams
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Hey guys, I have a couple of MAXTOR HDD's ; an old 4GB and a newer 40GB. both have failed on me. the 4GB had a life time of 4 years but the 40GB lived for less than 2 years of use. I've heard similar complaints from more than a couple of friends about MAXTOR drives failing way more than other brands. I've always respected MAXTOR and always thought that they were among the best HDD manufacturers, but I'm having second thoughts now. have you guys had trouble with MAXTOR too or am I -and my friends- just plain unlucky?
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A long time ago, i had a 4gb maxtor drive and it DIED pretty fast, like after half a year i think, lost a lot of stuff because of that... From then on and still today I try and keep away from them  |
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man, I really hate that.
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i have never had a maxtor die on me. I have had aseagate drive die though. Ity just started making clunking and pinging sounds and wouldnt be detected by the bios.
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I've just lost a 30gig maxtor, I also have an 80gig and 40gig in my pc and have noticed they get very hot. I now have the 80gig hanging outside the case and it stays just warm. while the 40gig still gets hot and I also have a 30gig IBM which hardly get warm at all.
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Cyclone
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i havent heard a lot of good things about IBM either...i perfer to stick to seagate or western digital...
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I think Seagates are fine, I just lost my confidence in MAXTOR's drives.
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Got a 120, 200,300 gb maxtor drives & built numerous systems with them in never had a problem |
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i never had a problem with mine either...
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I built a friends computer with a maxtor drive and it it's been running fine. 1 hiccup when i was building it, it would not boot off the 80GB drive. I don't know if this was bios or the drive at fault, but i fixed it by using a 15GB IBM I had lieing around for the bootsector, the 80GB shows no other unusual problems.
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You mean you couldn't get it to boot off the 80? that's unusual, I've booted from 80GB Maxtors before without a problem, guess it's ur BIOS. Anyway, I don't think I'll be buying any MAXTOR any time soon. I think I'll start going with Western Digital or SAMSUNG. Any remarks about SAMSUNGs?
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No idea about samsungs, I would go with western digital or seagate...
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Don't go with samsungs... they're cheap in price for a reason  . Cyclone has it right though, WD or segate (I prefer WD). |
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WD or Seagate they are basically the same the seagate drives now come with a 5yr warrenty BUT its not what its cracked up to be this is part of an email that i gto from Seagate (due to where i work)
" (1) The Warranty covers all drives excluding the External units
(2) Seagate ( via Distribution)
(i) First 3 Years Seagate offer Replacement or credit in following manner:
Replacement (Refurbished) or 100% credit for first 180 days from ship date
Replacement (refurbished) or 90% credit for 181 - 365 days from ship date
Replacement (refurbished) or 75% credit for Year 2 from ship date
Replacement (refurbished) or 50% credit for Year 3 from ship date
25% Credit ONLY for Year 4 from ship date
10% Credit ONLY for Year 5 from ship date
Note Credit calculated at current market price or last advertised price
(3) Seagate direct to end user
Seagate offer only Replacement (refurbished) for full 5 years to endusers, faulty drive sent Seagate at enduser expense and responsibility.
Therefore the Distributor holds the responsibility of the 4 and 5 year"
so the 5yrs is basically BS
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I had a maxtor and it died too , i have three seagate hdd's 80,40,14 gb and they all good , the 40 ive had for like 2-3 years ripped out from my cousins HP and its still running fine.
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