We see alot of Maxtor drives that go bad. We wouldn't recommend em.
gotta second that, i have seen more Maxtor drives go tits up in the last year than any other brand, especially in rackmount servers... they seem to die a very early heat-death compared to any other common brand (heh, even Micropolis!)... do a chargeback and don't sign for the package..!
...promise her a defamation, tell her where the rain will fall..
never had an IBM go bad though..... but I really needed the 250GB's
you must have never had any of the GXP series IBM drives... they pretty much drove IBM out of the HD biz... WD does make a 250Gb though, although i have a dead one right here on my desk. Seagate is my poison of choice at the moment..
...promise her a defamation, tell her where the rain will fall..
Originally posted by VirtuMike I have two dead maxtors on my desk right now. One is the 250 SATA and the other is a 300 ATA133.
My admin just lost a maxtor 40 a couple days ago.
We have moved Maxtor off of our list of approved vendors.
hmmm..... this is not good news.
How hard do you work 'em? Cuz I won't do much writing to them at all.... I pretty much fill 'em up all in one shot, and after that only ever read from them.
i use them as externals on a firewire.... shouldn't be any bios issues.
Ahh, makes sense. My 2 are internal with a 3rd being just my OS.
For the longest time I was left with half the storage on each, that
is until about 2 hours ago.
Now I've got the OS drive partitioned into 2 125GB chunks and
the other 2 partitioned into 1/4's
Just yesterday I started crashing dues to some bios issues and
finally today (after 5 crashes) went looking for the updates l0l
you must have never had any of the GXP series IBM drives... they pretty much drove IBM out of the HD biz... WD does make a 250Gb though, although i have a dead one right here on my desk. Seagate is my poison of choice at the moment..
lol, too many dead HD's these days, i think quality control has gone down across the board, truth be told. but Maxtor still tops my list at the moment for quick-failing drives..
...promise her a defamation, tell her where the rain will fall..
Used maxtor for many years, never a problem with them
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lol, too many dead HD's these days, i think quality control has gone down across the board, truth be told. but Maxtor still tops my list at the moment for quick-failing drives..
yeah no kidding.... what the hell happened to building something that lasts? I've thrown away probly 6 harddrives in the last 9 months. I remember when the 1 gig drive first came out... it was like, the uber coveted crowned jewel of harddrives.... lol... but they lasted forever! I think I still have a few kickin' around here somewhere.
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