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Old 03-11-2004, 02:41 PM   #1
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Maxtor MaXLine Plus II 250GB harddrives - good?
I hope so.... I just ordered a box of them.

anyone used these yet, got some input?
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Old 03-11-2004, 02:48 PM   #2
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Western Digital is better imho.

But then, all are crap if you can't find the updates to your BIOS
and your current setting allow a max of 137GBs.

Finally found my updates today
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Old 03-11-2004, 02:49 PM   #3
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We see alot of Maxtor drives that go bad. We wouldn't recommend em.
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Western Digital is better imho.

But then, all are crap if you can't find the updates to your BIOS
and your current setting allow a max of 137GBs.

Finally found my updates today
i use them as externals on a firewire.... shouldn't be any bios issues.
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Old 03-11-2004, 02:52 PM   #5
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We see alot of Maxtor drives that go bad. We wouldn't recommend em.
hmmm..... I've never tried Maxtors before, so I thought I'd give them a shot.... I have had Western DIgitals and Seagates fail on me often though.

never had an IBM go bad though..... but I really needed the 250GB's
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Old 03-11-2004, 02:55 PM   #6
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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..!
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Old 03-11-2004, 02:55 PM   #7
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Western Digital is better imho.

But then, all are crap if you can't find the updates to your BIOS
and your current setting allow a max of 137GBs.

Finally found my updates today
my 120gb maxtor came with a floppy which had 'maxblast' on it.

give that a shot next time, it works wonders.
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Old 03-11-2004, 02:56 PM   #8
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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.
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Old 03-11-2004, 02:57 PM   #9
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I love how people whine when their maxtor gets fucked up





how many people have to tell you?


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Old 03-11-2004, 02:58 PM   #10
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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..
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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.
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Old 03-11-2004, 03:00 PM   #12
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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

I R Lazy heh
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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..
dead Seagate i use as a paperweight....



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dead Seagate i use as a paperweight....



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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..
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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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Old 03-11-2004, 03:36 PM   #17
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I do not like Maxtor Company....I have in 1999, 2 HDD from Maxtor....its die after 5 month together.
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