All those with defective Maxtor HDs, please come in!

[AnitaPeterson]

Hi there,

In view of the troubles I personally had with Maxtor DiamondMax 9 HDs,

and the large number of complaints about Maxtor on this forum:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1433369&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1523468&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1586893&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1562939&enterthread=y

I was wondering what models are your defective HDs - I'm hoping we could, perhaps, figure out if certain models are more prone to dying than others.

So far, I had 4 (four) DiamondMax 9 @ 80 GB and one Diamondmax 9 @160 GB die shamelessly on me.

What about you?