Just had a four month old maxtor 160gb 7200rpm 8mb cache drive die. Thanks maxtor!
Maxtor drives suck ass
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Yeah maxtors suck ass in my opinion. I prefer the Seagate drives with the 5 year warranty. Also Western Digital has done well for me too, they have ones with a 3 year warranty.
Maxtor and IBM Desktar drives have not done good for me at all....Comment
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Haha the Hitachi DeathStar. Maxtor has made its way off our Approved Vendor list.
WD is the way to go.Comment
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IBM or Seagate are rock solid drives, but to be fair ... I hope you are not using such a large drive as the primary master (MHO).
We use the IBMs in our servers and Seagates in our video boxes ... no issues after a few years of heavy usage.
(Most if not all drive producers are actually using IBM's components to build their drives.)
Some Maxtor drives are okay, but for the most part they belong on the shelf at Cosco.Comment
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I just bought two 200gigs SATA Maxtors....

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o shit im a glad i was forced to get a western digital.... i did some research on dutch sites and the users + my bro gave some tips, so hitachi was #1 on my list and maxtor 2!!
lucky me they only sold WD at that crappy pc shop i was at :DComment
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Maxtor's just dont last like they used to. Seagate!!!!Xamo Entertainment
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didnt WD get bought by Maxtor?Xamo Entertainment
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I read a couple of years ago that IBM drives are now rebadged drives from other manufacturers such as Samsung. From memory there were 3 manufacturers making the same models, so you never really knew where it came from.
Is this still the case?
I've had an IBM deskstar drive go out - I researched it and the best guess is that the head erased/wrote whilst it was seeking over the disk. Big no-no! Kind of like splashing white-out across a typed sheet of paper... most of the data is still there, but as a whole the document is ruined. I was able to low level format the drive and it's working fine now, but I can't trust that drive (or rather its firmware) any more. Who knows when it will next energise the erase heads at the wrong moment.Comment
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I had same thing happen last year, it really hurt as I had transferred most of my work files to this 'new' drive and did not complete backups. Thanks MaxtorOriginally posted by jdavisJust had a four month old maxtor 160gb 7200rpm 8mb cache drive die. Thanks maxtor!

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I had a western digital drive eat 80 gigs of data after about 3 months of use. Tried 3 data recovery programs, nothing worked. Have all important data backed up on 3 drives now...
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