[Cialug] Maxtor drives

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At work, we recently purchased 4 Dell desktops that had Maxtor SATA drives in
them.  So far, 2 of them have failed, plus at least one in another division. 
One drive was so screwed up, XP saw it as a blank drive, and couldn't recover
any info from it.  Linux however, had no problem seeing an NTFS filesystem.

I bought a Maxtor 7200RPM ATA drive to put in my DirecTivo.  It is noisy as
h*ll!  There's a utility I can run on the drive to make it more quiet, but that
requires pulling the drive and putting it in a PC.

I think CompUSA brand drives are also Maxtor, so beware of those too.

Western Digital drives are better.  I've seen two fail.  One was an old 1.6GB
drive that came in a machine I bought off eBay (old Pentium box) a few years
ago.  Maybe the guy dropped it and shipped it anyway.  The other was a 2.1GB
that had been running for a very long time.  The guy ignored the SMART errors at
boot time.  Luckily I was able to restore everything (using Linux, of course).

About a year ago, I added a 1.6GB WD drive to my Linux box (needed just a bit
more space).  It's still purring along, 24x7.
--
Tim W.


> I bought three maxtor drives 18 month ago.  All three failed with in a
> year. (all in differant machines) Of the three that were replaced under
> warranty, one of the replacements failed.
> 
> Never again.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 12:03, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> > Does anyone else have the same disdain for the Maxtor brand that I do?  I
> > will never knowingly purchase a drive marked Maxtor.
> > 
> > We have an inexpensive Compaq DL320 I use to store and image drives from.
> > Unbelievably, it came with Maxtor IDE drives in it.  (It was from over three
> > years ago - I chose IDE over SCSI at the time because it was non-critical
> > and I could get more capacity for less $$$ with IDE). I have had two Maxtor
> > drives fail in the unit over the past two years.  I have had other poor
> > experiences with Maxtor at home as well - from before I knew better.  
> > 
> > Anyone have anything good to say about Maxtor?  Anyone else care to vent?
> > 
> > -Nate
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