HD's (what size to stay away from):

[userpete]

I had a friend that had to return his 45gig Maxtor 2 times in 3 months. What drive sizes are we to stay away from that seem to be having problems?? Maybe throw in HD mfg's. to stay away from also.

Thx
Pete

 

[Splork]

I've heard that the IBM's 45 Gig's have problems too.

-sp

 

[ziggie]

Interesting........any more info. on this would me appricated 🙂

CU
ZiGGie

 

[TunaBoo]

In general IBM 75 GXP's are more likely to have problems.

Otherwise, IDE drives are pretty reliable. The new maxtors and the IBM 60 GXP's seem to do good (I have a 40 gig IBM 60 GXP)

 

[Paulson]

Everything but the 75GXP model IBM's are pretty good hard drives.

Maxtor, WD, Quantum, and seagate are all pretty good drives...

 

[ziggie]

I swore by Quantum for years and seagate bought it out and run WD now and hear horror stores at times about this or that mfg. but I guess the techie stuff are about the same now days.....Huh.

Pete

 

[Hyudra]

Heh, my IBM 75GXP is running fine.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

I think it is best to get drives in sizes that are multiples of 20 right now since that means that they are probably 20 gig platters. Ones that are multiples of 15 are 15 gig platters which are usually slower for the same spin rate.
higher data density+same speed= more data read per period of time)

Watch out though as there are prolly still some 10 gig/platter hds floating around and some companies are releasing 30 gig/platter drives.

As for reliability I have been hearing bad things about the IBM 75GXP series lately. I have been using a WD for 2 years and haven't had any problems at all

Hope this helps 🙂

-Ice

 

[BlackWob]

IBM 75GXP develop bad sectors all the time from what I read. The 60GXPs fix this problem though.

My Maxtor Diamondmax 27gig I bought a year and a half ago melted [seriosly, the platter like melted] and I had to get a refund. Now I use bay coolers and HDD heatsinks. Until that point I never really thought about cooling.

Edit: In general the Maxtors [at least the old school ones] have major problems with any type of heat at all. Don't know if this has been fixed yet.

 

[Paulson]

heat huh?

Hmmmmmm.

That isn't good, because my 40 gig maxtor from a year ago (only 5400RPM) is right below my WD 7200RPM 40 gig hard drive.

Both of them are going at the same time.

Well, I have lots of case ventilation, so I think I'm ok (dust collects in the front of the case because of the air being sucked....)

 

[BatmanNate]

As far as the 75 GXP 45GB IBM drive's, of which many have failed, it leads back to where they were manufactured. The faulty ones mostly all originated in Hungary, whereas the non faulty ones were from the Phillipines. I am running one from the Phillipines and have been for quite some time and it has been flawless. It will say on the drive where it was manufactured. Also, older maxtor drives are prone to all sorts of problems. I've had head crashes on a 200mb, a 300mb, a 1.6GB, 2x 5.7GB's, 2x 8.0GB's, and 1 13.6GB. (I don't learn, do i? lol) However my 60GB appears to have no problems as of yet.

 

[urameatball]

I'm stupid enough to buy maxtor harddrives.

and now both of them are making clicking noises.

btw, they're both 20GB drives 7200rpm.

 

[jamarno]

Maxtors have some tiny chips that often run at 60-70C, and that's in 25C air, because they drive the motor and head positioner, although the ARM CPU near the ribbon connector gets even hotter during sustained reads or writes.

I don't like to mount a drive without at least 1 cm of air space on each side, and if it spin idles at more than 6 watts, I want some air flow over the chips, even convection from vertical orientation.

 

[LXi]

Quantum got bought by Maxtor, not Seagate. I'd personally will stay away from WD and IBM 75GXP series.

 

[roc]

I wasn't aware that any of the GXP drives had an issue such as this. Interesting stuff though . . .

roc

 

[TunaBoo]

<< I'm stupid enough to buy maxtor harddrives.

and now both of them are making clicking noises.

btw, they're both 20GB drives 7200rpm. >>



Maxtors are pretty darn reliable (especially the newer ones). Did you overtighten the screwes? Did you use long or short screwes? Fine or coarse? Using the wrong type of screw can drastically cut down the life of a drive (hard drive or CD-Rom)

 

[ace31216]

hmmm... I had problems with Maxtor. I've have 2 western digitals and and IBM 60GXP which have performed splendidly. Everyone says Western Digitals are awful but I disagree. I guess it all depends on different people you talk about. I heard Quantum are pretty reliable.