Originally posted by: cirthix
about a year ago, i was working it the comp lab at my high school, we had 2 imacs with burnt chips on the pcb of maxtor hard drives. same chip. i kept the image in my mind for future refrence. fast forward a while. i had a maxor drive, my sister in law had a maxtor drive, same chip in same location fried in a puff of smoke on her drive. luckily, we could temprrarily use my controller board on her drive to save her data, and then return mine to its working state. interestingly enough, the pcb was easily removable as it seems maxtor has these die quickly, and then needs to have them refurbished in the shortest amount of time.
CROSS OUT MAXTOR FROM THE LIST
Fast forward again, when i bought a 160gb wd special edition drive from newegg. 2 weeks later, i had problems with bad contacts and warping of the pcb, even when i had it in normal use, no tossing around or overheating (i have a fan aimed at it). the replacement is kinda flaky. my brother has a seagate, and let me borrow it, it never gave me any problems, not a bad contact, not a bad read or bad write. it consistently stayed cooler than the wd drive, even though they were the same rpm and the wd had a fan on it!!! did i mention that the seagate was quieter?
CROSS OUT WESTERN DIGITAL FROM THE LIST
do yourself a favor and get a SEAGATE!!! best drives out there, they run coool, are just as fast as any other, are reliable and quet, now with 5 year warranties. what else do you want?
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