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chupachups · 05-07-2005, 09:45 PM

Fucking MAXTOR-CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only Seagate and IBM from now on.

</rant>

woj · 05-07-2005, 09:48 PM

you should be thrilled that you didn't lose something more valuable...

simple simon · 05-07-2005, 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by woj

you should be thrilled that you didn't lose something more valuable...

ya no doubt, I mean 200 gigs of pirated movies, sheeeesh

hudson · 05-07-2005, 09:51 PM

ah well...now you have something to do for the next few months

chupachups · 05-07-2005, 09:51 PM

Yeah sure, you´re right about that but for a true cineast it sucks...

Mike Okitch · 05-07-2005, 09:58 PM

Awwww mate, that blows royal.

I'll have to ship you some G&T

riddler · 05-07-2005, 09:59 PM

lol ibm harddrives aint no better, fuck ibm harddrives.

chupachups · 05-07-2005, 10:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrC

lol ibm harddrives aint no better, fuck ibm harddrives.

Heard to many ppl saying that lately... I have only had good experiences with them really. I guess its Seagate only then..

And Mike, thx mate!

riddler · 05-07-2005, 10:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chupachups

Heard to many ppl saying that lately... I have only had good experiences with them really. I guess its Seagate only then..

And Mike, thx mate!

I had a few ibm's fast drives but they made wierd noises and did wierd shit, never could figure out what was with them so i just took them out and put them in a box of junk pc parts.

bringer · 05-07-2005, 10:19 PM

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html

chupachups · 05-07-2005, 10:21 PM

lol
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/backup.html

boner 2.0 · 05-07-2005, 10:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chupachups

Fucking MAXTOR-CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quoted for truth. Fucking shit

Western Digital/Seagate

bringer · 05-07-2005, 10:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chupachups

lol
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/backup.html

my link is better

Sosa · 05-07-2005, 10:28 PM

maxtors suck ass in my opinion

bringer · 05-07-2005, 10:29 PM

wow, a lot of maxtor haters
only 1 maxtor became a problem for me. most of my problems came with WD 80gb drives

arnette · 05-07-2005, 11:12 PM

what happened to the hard drive? it may be recoverable

chupachups · 05-07-2005, 11:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arnette

what happened to the hard drive? it may be recoverable

Well, I hope so.... I expect to recover some stuff from it. No idea what happened really, no overheating etc..

Antonio · 05-07-2005, 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arnette

what happened to the hard drive? it may be recoverable

yup, in 90% of the cases it is
Not the HD but the data ;)

stev0 · 05-07-2005, 11:42 PM

note for the future... backup everythign ;)

Redrob · 05-08-2005, 12:07 AM

They all die sooner or later. Making backups should be our religion.

iwantchixx · 05-08-2005, 12:28 AM

Hate to break it to you but ALL hard drives are created equal now. Just different specs and sizes. Maxtor is no better than IBM, WD and vise versa. They're all using the same damn circuits, components and such just rebranded.

I've had the same 20g maxtor now for almost 6 years.... no physical problems at all. I've also got a 1.6 gig bigfoot that is close to ten years old with no issues and people used to claim that bigfoot drives were junk too.

They're all the same man.

iwantchixx · 05-08-2005, 12:35 AM

You guys need to monitor the dirve's health. There are apps that can monitor the overall health of the drives physical parts. One of which is "Speedfan".

My maxtor is around 80% healthy since the day I got it. That's a good health actually. The WD was 90% at first and now 8 months later it's at 80%. A bit faster if loss of health but it's porbably going to stay at 80 for a few years.

If the drive drops bellow 65% it's time to use the drive for less important work. After 50% send it back for recycling. It's just not trustable.

Back your stuff up people. I cannot stress that enough. I just formatted yesterday and am already back up and running 100% because I kept constant backups of everything on an external 20g drive.

BigBen · 05-08-2005, 12:53 AM

Maxtor drives are shit in my experience. I've had to replace a bunch of them we had at the office. Have had many less problems with other brands.

chupachups · 05-08-2005, 12:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iwantchixx

You guys need to monitor the dirve's health. There are apps that can monitor the overall health of the drives physical parts. One of which is "Speedfan".

My maxtor is around 80% healthy since the day I got it. That's a good health actually. The WD was 90% at first and now 8 months later it's at 80%. A bit faster if loss of health but it's porbably going to stay at 80 for a few years.

If the drive drops bellow 65% it's time to use the drive for less important work. After 50% send it back for recycling. It's just not trustable.

Back your stuff up people. I cannot stress that enough. I just formatted yesterday and am already back up and running 100% because I kept constant backups of everything on an external 20g drive.

Yeah, I use speedfan and HD temperature which even forces a HD to stop when it is getting overheated. Problem here was it happened all of a sudden, and the disk is less than 3-4 months old..

KRL · 05-08-2005, 01:01 AM

Seagate's are great.

Homer · 05-08-2005, 02:33 AM

ibm hd sux

bhutocracy · 05-08-2005, 02:36 AM

I've had two seagates die in the ass.

Yngwie · 05-08-2005, 02:49 AM

my 200gb WD Caviar SE hasn't failed me yet

DWB · 05-08-2005, 03:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chupachups

Fucking MAXTOR-CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only Seagate and IBM from now on.

</rant>

I've had a few Maxtors die on my, lost all kinds of shit and had to star all over again.

I feel your pain.

Dalai lama · 05-08-2005, 03:28 AM

nice sig

xiando · 05-08-2005, 03:32 AM

I read some very interesting news some years ago.

They, I mean the computer scientest, have developed an amazing, new way of preventing data-losses like this.

They call it BACKUP.

It is amazing. It's new. It doesn't even shave your pps traffic. You should try it!

pushpills · 05-08-2005, 05:07 AM

western digital, dozens of drives never a problem.

Theo · 05-08-2005, 05:16 AM

oh shit!!!!!

mardigras · 05-08-2005, 07:14 AM

I've lost a couple Maxtors since the beginning of the year. They were being used as a 2ndary drive. Most of the stuff on them were rarities I can only hope of coming across again

I gave up on having a larger extra drive on the PC. Instead I recently added a DVD recorder that I am primarily using as a data backup device. I figure individual discs may go bad but at least I don't lose everything at once.

NaughtyAlysha · 05-08-2005, 09:59 AM

We lost a Maxtor external drive recently, and some of the stuff wasn't backed up. I don't know if I'll buy another one. No problems with Seagate (yet).

gecko · 05-08-2005, 11:09 AM

That's gotta suck, sorry to hear. Yea I'm a big seagate fan.. but I do have a few maxtors.

MandyBlake · 05-08-2005, 11:15 AM

oh man that sucks. sorry to hear that.

iwantchixx · 05-08-2005, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chupachups

Yeah, I use speedfan and HD temperature which even forces a HD to stop when it is getting overheated. Problem here was it happened all of a sudden, and the disk is less than 3-4 months old..

what temperature was the drive hovering around? For a drive to just fail instantly liek that either takes heat abuse or electrical surges.

My maxtor hovers around 84c which is actually a safe temperature.

iwantchixx · 05-08-2005, 12:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mardigras

I've lost a couple Maxtors since the beginning of the year. They were being used as a 2ndary drive. Most of the stuff on them were rarities I can only hope of coming across again

I gave up on having a larger extra drive on the PC. Instead I recently added a DVD recorder that I am primarily using as a data backup device. I figure individual discs may go bad but at least I don't lose everything at once.

I use en external enclosure with my maxtor in it as a "work" drive and temporary backups of important files. Every once in a while I archive it all to DVD medium. My DVD burner was the best purchase I have ever made for my computer.

Vitasoy · 05-08-2005, 02:04 PM

I know the feeling, real well.

mardigras · 05-08-2005, 02:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iwantchixx

I use en external enclosure with my maxtor in it as a "work" drive and temporary backups of important files. Every once in a while I archive it all to DVD medium. My DVD burner was the best purchase I have ever made for my computer.

Before the last hard drive (with the most stuff) failed my PC decided it didn't like CD burners, so I lost everything that wasn't uploaded to my webhost or saved long ago. It's weird because the DVD burner I got works fine and the CD burners I gave away work great for the recipients

jimmyf · 05-08-2005, 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bringer

wow, a lot of maxtor haters
only 1 maxtor became a problem for me. most of my problems came with WD 80gb drives

me 2 I use to have 3 or 4 Western Digital's under my desk, just to remind never to buy another one, pure crap.

reynold · 05-09-2005, 02:08 AM

at least you have learnt from it.

tbsteve · 05-09-2005, 04:04 PM

I have always used maxtor and never had a problem, western digital = crap!

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