Maxtor 160 GB drives are shit
 

Second drive to crash on me (bad sectors or something according to max blast) in 3 months! Are these drives not meant for raid? WTF!?!?

Maxtor drives own.

That's all I buy, got 80GB ATA133 + 120GB SATA in my main machine, not using them for RAID though.

160 RAID? wow... you need that much space?

i am happy with 2 x 60 gig.... works fine, enough space

i got a few that work perfect

They are better thna Western digital... in terms of longevity.

Are you useing the ATA100?

Oh yeah and the; Buffer Size 2 MB

I've had more then my fair share of Maxtor drives fail lately, but when you've got a dozen or so on the go, it tends up the odds.

dang 160 is a lot, i thought 50 was too much for me

Hands down...

IBM

or

WD are the best

http://westerndigital.com/en/product...d1200jbrtl.asp

Get the 120 GB 8mb Cache and 8mb Buffer!

Best-buy has them for like 59.00 no fucking LIE!

its a 79.00 mail in rebait..

Out the door price 129.99

i got 2x WD 120 gigs..but i've burnt one before..now i'm using the mactor 250 gig firewire as a backup device in case it happens again


Btw, you've set your raid as a backup right?

Ya, i have a 40 gb HD
Still have like 70% free...
lmao

I'm running 2x160's in striped mode for serious speed. I'm beginning to think these drives weren't meant to handle it. I've never been through this many drives in a such a short period of time ever.

I have 3 and I have never had a problem, had some problems with the Maxtor 120 tho

Maybe the raid controller is somehow corrupting the drives?

My choice is 2x72GB Scsi Seagate!

wake up people, Fujitsu.

Never had any problems with them.

:1orglaugh

gotta go scsi!

never had a problem---
hmmm call them an if your cool and tell them you had a few burn in a few months theyll hook you up

I also have bad experience with Maxtor drives in my RAID system... 60 or 160 it doesn't matter. Both sucked

Maxtor is the shit :thumbsup

we had over 12 Western Digitals crash on us. :)

All we use now are the 120 Maxtor's Anything over that fails.

In my experience Maxtor owns Western Digital hands down...

I had about 12 Maxtor drives and only 2 failed me... Now for WD I got about 6 of them and 2 already failed me.. :) All bought around the same time frame.

Maxtor > WD

The WD 8mb cache HD's are the best, I've had several of them with no failures.

My past few machines had cheap Maxtor drives, and they have both failed on me.

i must be lucky, ive NEVER had a hd crash on me before.

I got 120gb maxtor and works just fine

i was going to get one of those... decided on the western digital instead. Now im glad i spent the extra $20.

Maybe that's why Best Buy had them for $80 after rebate

dead drives in 10 years = 2 seagates (one was only months old) and 1 fujitsu

yeah thats true but I always have a problem at frys

I love Maxtor, I never had a single problem with them

they do a good job

hmmm.. frys is where I got both of the failed drives from. Maybe frys gets the shitty batches?

i got one 80gb a couple months ago

it died within a week and it was slower than WD


after that i got one 200gb WD......no problem as always. I remember we had a maxtor in a w2k server that had problem as well.

HOLY FUCKING BAWLS just lost a third one!

these fuckers definitly weren't meant for raid or something is seriously fucked up in my system.

time to switch from raid 0 to 1 :helpme

Same here.

One of the component suppliers I use for my PC said there was a 6 month period when Western Digital's factory was having some major manufacturing kinks happening and a ton of drives went out with defects.

I've always like WD's the best. I've only had one drive go bad and it was my own fault cause I drop it off a work counter and it took a 3 ft dive. The data was recoverable, but it was clicking away.

I'm using some Maxtors also. Of all the drives I use, they seem to be the noisiest.

I really like this new Seagate External drive that came out recently. Got a really sharp design. Totally quiet and running perfect so far.

Raid 0 on two 160s gets you almost 320 gigs SATA... great for video work :-)

Alex

The 160 Gb SATA Maxtors run so freaking hot they melted a plastic enclosure inside my case. They haven't failed yet but I wouldn't be surprised if they did some time soon. Nothing could run this hot and last long.

What model was it? :(

No shit!


These drives are CRAP. I've lost 4 of them in the last 12 months.

What raid are you running them on, I haven't had many problems with Maxtor on raid.

I have 5 Maxtor and their well over a yr old, all 80 gig & 60 gig drives.

jDoG

I've used EVERY BRAND.
The older maxtors were ok but like western digital they recently began outsourcing thier cheaper drives to mexico.
The best cheap 120GB HD's PERIOD..... Hitachi.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...145-034&depa=0
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...145-060&depa=0

Never had a problem with WD or Maxtor :::: knock on wood::::

I have 2 WD 200GB and 2 Maxtor 160GB and never had a problem.

Would be in deep shit if they failed..

I have three 200 Gb Maxtor external hd's and two 250 Gb Maxtor external hd's and I have never had a problem with any of them.

We definitely bought one of those. Crashed after a month.:helpme