a HDD question.

[Helix666]

When reading one of the other forums I frequent, I found this:


Bad, Maxtor. Bad! Sorry to all of you with Maxtor drives, but ... blech!

And it seems that quite a few people seem to be opposed to Maxtor HDDs. Is there a reason for this, and should I avoid them (The HDDs, not the people. (although...))?

[Crazy Buddhist]

Never had a major problem with them.

CrazyB

[Helix666]

Ah, it was just that I'd read plenty of posts ,etc where people are urging others to avoid Maxtor.
Obviously, the people with the problems are the most vocal. But stories of entire batches of bad HDDs are a little scary.

[SgtM]

I'm running 3 of them right now. No problems. (knocks on wood).

[Helix666]

That's good. I'll stick with the Maxtor drive then.

[calumc]

one of mine is maxtor (i think) and ive never had any probs

[Airbozo]

ALL HD manufacturers at one time or another have had bad batches of HD's due to a manufacturing issue. It is best to check out the model you are interested in before purchasing _any_ HD. AT one time I would not buy any Seagate product and _only_ bought Maxtor (now the same company I think), due to the fact Maxtor used to warranty all HD's for 5 years. No more.

I have 2 seagate's and 2 maxtor's and 2 ibm's in my system and never had any issues, yet.

[r0adawg]

something to remember, keep them cool... that will help keep them around longer :) and make backups you may never need them but should the unthinkable happen, you'll be thankful for the backup. 8)

[Spawn-Inc]

i only like Seagate and raptors. ^^ yes thats what i will do. 2 250's in raid 0 or 1 not sure yet. 750gb back up.

[OrsoDesigns]

I am running 2 maxtor's in my wife's computer and haven't had any problems.

[Crazy Buddhist]

i only like Seagate and raptors. ^^ yes thats what i will do. 2 250's in raid 0 or 1 not sure yet. 750gb back up.

Seagate bought and own Maxtor brand and company - lock, stock and barrel. Maxtor drives are Seagate drives.

[Quakken]

ah i see...

[Helix666]

Seagate bought and own Maxtor brand and company - lock, stock and barrel. Maxtor drives are Seagate drives.

Ah. I didn't know that.
You learn something every day.


and make backups you may never need them but should the unthinkable happen, you'll be thankful for the backup.

Normally, my data is put at risk by me. Luckily, after losing everything twice*, I've learned. I now archive my /home folder to DVD.

*(Actually on the family XP box.) Once by me formatting the wrong partition, (Actually, the whole drive. Oops...), and once by the local computer shop repairing a hardware problem and doing a nuke'n'pave on the HDD.

[crenn]

I run 3 Seagate drives, and they're fairly cool, quiet, and fast. I also have a 120GB Maxtor (in another system) and a 200GB Maxtor. The 200GB drive is a little louder than my other HDDs but it's no concern. However, my 120GB is quite loud, you can hear it over most things.

EDIT: I should mention that the Maxtor drives are around 3 years old for the 200GB and 4-5 years old for the 120GB drive.

[alexanderH]

Love them maxtor drives. I still have my 10 Gig maxtor running at a blistering 7200 RPM. It was the first of it's kind what 7 Years ago? I bought it to run Sim City 3000, my 2.5 Gig couldn't fit it haha!

So until they were bought out by Seagate I have had only good experiences with them. And well I own all Seagates where my drives are less than 3 years old, so same drives same quality I say!

[FuzzyPlushroom]

Hey AlexanderH, good to see someone else still running one of those 10 GB/7200 RPM Maxtors! It's the OS drive in my Sempron box (the storage drive's a 60 GB/5400 RPM that seems to work fine but fails SMART tests... so I'm gonna replace it soon). Got a 30 GB in my Tbird that's doing fine as well. My main drive's a Western Digital that I've had for a year and a half, as is my mother's 20 GB which is from 1999. As for failures, I've had three - two 20 GB drives that were in hot cases for three-plus years (one WD and one Seagate) and one Seagate that was babied for six months before it crapped out.

Your mileage, of course, may vary.

[GrimReality]

Speaking of Maxtors... mine recently decided to turn itself into a paperweight. I think its still under warranty I just hope I can find the paperwork.

I also have two WD 74gb Raptors. My older one (with 8mb cache) has been a champ for about 3 years and is still going strong but when I bought a newer one (with 16mb cache) it failed within the first month and I had to replace it and **** it all if its not slower AND louder than my old 8mb cache one. I wish I could find the old ones because they sure as hell don't make them like they used to. :(

[Crazy Buddhist]

Speaking of Maxtors... mine recently decided to turn itself into a paperweight. I think its still under warranty I just hope I can find the paperwork. ... :(

Tried looking under your paperweight?

CrazyB

[OrsoDesigns]

Seagate bought and own Maxtor brand and company - lock, stock and barrel. Maxtor drives are Seagate drives.

I didnt know this either but it makes sense now. I was at staples the other day and in the drive aisle I seen a Maxtor box with a seagate security seal. i just thought I was going crazy.

[Crazy Buddhist]

OrsoDesigns ... they bought Maxtor well over a year ago so you'll be glad you are not going crazy. Unless you are Crazy, of course, in which case I suppose you may actually be disappointed :)

"By INQUIRER (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28482) staff: Wednesday 21 December 2005, 08:54

Seagate to buy Maxtor for $2 billion

Updated Hard drive hard cheese

* SEAGATE and Maxtor confirmed the acquisition. The deal is worth $1.9 billion. The firms said the combination will be 10-20% accretive on a cash EPS basis after the first full year of combined operations. The combined company will save around $300 million in operating expenses after the first full year of integration, Seagate said. The transaction will be completed in the second half of next year. If the deal falls apart, Maxtor will pick up $300 million. The two firms will continue as separate companies until the close of the deal."

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/desktops/diamondmax/

^^^ and that URL from seagates site rather gives it all away :D

As does the Maxtor FAQ
(http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=Seagate_Acquires_Maxtor&vgnextoid=29a8e0b126a5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD )
Q: When did Seagate's acquisition of Maxtor close?

A: May 19, 2006

Q: What was the closing price of Maxtor (MXO) on May 19, 2006?

A: $9.27


CrazyB

[Airbozo]

Up until last year I was running 4 250MB (yes MB) maxtor scsi drives striped. Those drives are at least 13 years old. Never had so much as a hiccup from them, but needed the physical space for more drives, so they are now in the scrap heap. Maxtor _used_ to be the measuring stick for other drives. Seagate is/was the walmart of drives... They are way better now though.

I used to work for a company that used seagate's exclusively in one of their new products (a drive array cabinet, a precursor to the nas systems you see now), and one batch of seagate's we got in had ~85% failure rate. We went through almost 200 drives trying to find a working one, then thinking the product had engineering defects, it was sent back to manufacturing for testing only to find out there was nothing wrong with it. Seagate admitted the screw up, paid my company big bucks not to drop their drives (they did anyway), and then tried to hide the fact that several thousand drives were completely useless when used in any sort of raid function. Took them many years to recover from that screwup.

[Bucko]

The last two drives I've bought have been Samsung 500Gb SATA drives.
I'll be interested to see how they go.
I have always found Samsung to be very good quality with their monitors (I don't buy anything else after seeing them perform extremely well at work) and I'm hoping that quality transfers to their HDDs too.