ANOTHER Maxtor drive has died on me...

[Shawn]

I used to think Maxtor was superior to WD. Boy was I wrong. This is the 3rd maxtor drive to die on me in the past 6 months and the 2nd this week (the maxtor drive in a computer I was trying to sell died as soon as I found a buyer :roll: ). My computer hard locked last night but not thinking anything of it and just restarted. This morning I got up and started browsing ATOT when I heard clicking followed by a BSOD! :|

I am currently trying to copy all of my important data off the bad drive before I can't access it at all. I'm posting from ATOT on my laptop. I used to trust all of my important data to my Maxtor drives and keep all my nonessential data on the WD drives. All of my important data is going on the WD drives from now on!

 

[Oyeve]

Were all the drives the same or simular model?

 

[Shawn]

Well the drive that just died was an RMA replacement from the last one that died about 6 months ago. The model number is 6b200p0. It's a 200GB drive. The other one was some old 20 gig drive.

 

[Crescent13]

I thought everyone knew how bad maxtor drives are...


Sheesh you've got 20,000 posts and you haven't seen the thousands of people that post on here telling people not to buy maxtor?

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
I thought everyone knew how bad maxtor drives are...


Sheesh you've got 20,000 posts and you haven't seen the thousands of people that post on here telling people not to buy maxtor?

Well back in the day I had a few WD drives die on me while my maxtor drives were reliable. In fact, I still have a Maxtor drive that's 6 years old that still works. However all of my WD drives that I have bought within the past few years have been dead reliable. Looks like they fixed their reliablilty issues.

 

[Rommel44]

Seagate just bought Maxtor and I dont know why they are keeping that **** alive why not just use their patents and manufacturing plants and get rid of that garbage:-(
Sorry for OffTopic

 

[SparkyJJO]

I have trusted maxtor over WD until recently, now maxtors run so hot it isn't funny and that heat leads to drive failures. I never have had good luck with WD. But after the whole heat issue I won't buy maxtor anymore. Seagate or samsung for me.

My bro is using all maxtor drives in his computer, has been using the same couple drives for a few years now. Good cooling for them as well and so far they still run fine.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO
I have trusted maxtor over WD until recently, now maxtors run so hot it isn't funny and that heat leads to drive failures. I never have had good luck with WD. But after the whole heat issue I won't buy maxtor anymore. Seagate or samsung for me.

My bro is using all maxtor drives in his computer, has been using the same couple drives for a few years now. Good cooling for them as well and so far they still run fine.

Yeah, you are probably right about the heat causing them to fail. Both of my maxtor drives run really hot. I put a fan in front of them for that very reason. One time the fan connection came lose and the hard drives got so hot that they could have probably fryed an egg. They also seem to get really hot when transfering large amounts of data (which is why I have the case open right now with a fan blowing inside while I'm trying to recover my data). I haven't had any such heat issues with any other hard drives.

 

[evilhead]

I must be the only one that has never experienced a HDD failure. in 15 years! and now, when reading this thread, I realised I would probably not recognize that clicking sound everyone's talking about. is it loud?

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
I thought everyone knew how bad maxtor drives are...

Sheesh you've got 20,000 posts and you haven't seen the thousands of people that post on here telling people not to buy maxtor?

You'd think out of 20,000 posts, at least a few would have been "Non-Bumps"... :roll:

Originally posted by: evilhead
I must be the only one that has never experienced a HDD failure. in 15 years!

Your day will come. :laugh:

 

[Mem]

I must be the only one that has never experienced a HDD failure. in 15 years!

Same here , zero problems,currently using two Maxtors,one is very old ,but if it did fail I would not blame Maxtor,all brands fail sooner or later and I have had my share of hardware failure in the past, all quality parts like Crucial ram,AMD cpu etc... , find me one brand with 0 failures,impossible to say the least.

I thought everyone knew how bad maxtor drives are...

I thought Seagate now own Maxtor?..in my experience I would say ther are all more or less equal,just pot luck if you get a bad one,regardless of brand,bit like some people getting a bad/faulty motherboard,it happens.

I should point out I know somebody that got 3 bad Asus boards in a row,very bad luck or what,but I would not say they are crap,far from it.

 

[Operandi]

I've had very good experiences with Maxtor drives. I've probably gone through 20-30 drives (Maxtor) and have only encountered one failure.

 

[Oyeve]

I have 4 Maxtors in my system now. The Maxline III with 5 year warranty. And another one of them is an older first gen Maxtor 250gb sata that is about 3 yrs old and I have had no issues with them at all. The maxtors on the PCs at work on the other hand have been dying left and right. Maybe retail vs OEM has something to do with it. I dont know, but I have never had a problem with a Maxtor at home (knocks on wood quickly!)

 

[chairbornrangerx]

I've had a few maxtors die in me in the past as well, running WD now without a problem, but I like the warranties on Seagate drives.

 

[Bradtechonline]

I've used about every brand of drive, and found the old Quantom drives fail a lot, and Maxtor.

I've had the best luck with Using Western Digital, and Samsung drives. Seagates are alright also, but some of the ones I've used tend to run a lot hotter than the WD's or Samsungs.

I have two Samsungs in my system at home, and they run great. I have an old 160 GB PATA Samsung that is going on about 3 1/2 years old. STill runs like the day I bought it, no slow downs or anything, and it's inaudiable still.

I had a bunch of Maxtor 40 GB drives die on me, and my friend had a 250 GB Maxtor die on him, and the same goes for another friend that had an 80 GB Maxtor.

Stay away from Hitachi also. Their drives sound about as loud as a raptor, and have clicking noises in them. I got about 10-15 Hitachi's drive s in some Acers and they are real loud compared to the WD drives in the other 15.

 

[nismotigerwvu]

Dude, i feel you on this one....i had a maxtor die on me last night....I've yet to have one in my rig that didn;t fail before 6 months went by since i first had to deal with one (on a brand new 233 mhz K6 back in the day)....I know a lot of people swear by them but I've had no luck....atleast they RMA them no questions asked and are very nice to deal with. I also have an old 2 gig WD caviar that i sue as my boot drive for a NAT-box that ended up replacing that old maxtor after i got fed up with RMA'ing it and sold it to a friend

 

[Vertigo-1]

Add me to the Maxtor boycott. They were pretty good about 5-7 years ago, but the past few years I've consistently had problems with their drives dying prematurely. I've since switched to Seagates, which are whisper quiet and don't seem to run as hot (from observing one running externally). I dunno about WD, read way too many goods and bads on Newegg to really determine if they're safe, whereas Seagate's reviews seem to be consistently good on Newegg.

 

[maluckey]

Remember when everyone was saying that Antec PSU's were "best", when in fact, most were crap? I trust opinions based on other peoples seat of he pants experience to be worth a bucket of warm spit.

I personally Never had a problem with Maxtors. Had plenty of WDs die though. Does this mean that WD are crap? No, it just means that they couldn't handle being out of spec for long as far as overclocking. I used to run over 40mHz PCI speeds for months on end (use search of AT Forums), and the Maxtor drives would take it without complaint.

I found that most complaints about HDD deaths are from overheating them, NOT the drive themselves failing for no good reason. I have never disregarded temperatures and MBTF ratings when making purchases. Not doing so causes $$ to be lost.

Read the manufacturers reccomendations and follow them if you want your product to last. Otherwise, you are on your own.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: maluckey
Remember when everyone was saying that Antec PSU's were "best", when in fact, most were crap? I trust opinions based on other peoples seat of he pants experience to be worth a bucket of warm spit.

I personally Never had a problem with Maxtors. Had plenty of WDs die though. Does this mean that WD are crap? No, it just means that they couldn't handle being out of spec for long as far as overclocking. I used to run over 40mHz PCI speeds for months on end (use search of AT Forums), and the Maxtor drives would take it without complaint.

I found that most complaints about HDD deaths are from overheating them, NOT the drive themselves failing for no good reason. I have never disregarded temperatures and MBTF ratings when making purchases. Not doing so causes $$ to be lost.

Read the manufacturers reccomendations and follow them if you want your product to last. Otherwise, you are on your own.

I absolutely and totally agree. Most problems I get with HDDs, this includes seagates is when they get too hot, circumstances that causes them to get too hot would be along the lines of imaging one drive to another, to prevent them from getting hot, I usually try to transfer the data in blocks of 30GB or so then let them cool.

 

[Skeeedunt]

I know you can find someone to say something bad about any HD brand, but maxtors just seem to be consistently worse. Hopefully Seagate cleans up their act.

 

[Shawn]

Wow, talk about weird. I ran PowerMax on it to try and get a failure code (so I can RMA it) and it passed all the tests. I can't get it to click again, but I sure as hell don't trust it with my data. This sucks.

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: maluckey
Remember when everyone was saying that Antec PSU's were "best", when in fact, most were crap? I trust opinions based on other peoples seat of he pants experience to be worth a bucket of warm spit.

Interesting because both are prolly among the most pop if not the pop in retail market share. Therefore a higher number of failures could be expected from user err (as opposed to other manufacturers/brands in pre-built systems). That said, Antec really was and is crap but Maxtor would not have remained in bidness if they were as bad as some claim. Indeed Seagate would not have bought 'em just for their strength in retail (and to eliminate a competitor) if the brand name they intend to keep using is mudd so it can't really be.

 

[thescreensavers]

WD,Sea>ALL

 

[Nocturnal]

Do you have any type of active cooling blowing over the drive? Hard drives get extremely hot, I mean almost to the point where you can't even hold it without being somewhat burned. I highly recommend getting a fan to blow directly over your hard drives. I do and it's kept my Maxtor and my Raptor nice and cool for quite some time.

 

[Ika]

I've never had an HDD fail on me, but I've only used about four in my life time (WD for two years, samsung for 4 years, and I don't know the other two).