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is maxtor really as bad as ppl say?

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I have never, ever had a HDD fail on me. I have never, ever had a Maxtor HDD, though. I have only have experience with IBM, Hitachi, Western Digital, and Seagate. I am contemplating getting a DiamondMax 10, but with so many negative comments for Maxtor, I am somewhat afraid of getting one.
 
I have sold plenty of WD, Maxtor and so on. There was a period a few years ago where I had a few customers quickly go thru a number of maxtor 40G drives. So, I had bad experience with older Maxtor, and Older IBM. Newer drives... anyone having trouble with New drives? I bet even the new Hitachis are great... suppliers seem to be flogging them.

The IBM drives were faster than the others years ago. The new hitachi drives... lots of them are SATA2 and NCQ support. Worth looking in to. My preferences now are Maxtor, WD, and Hitachi only... unless something awesome comes around... I don't bother much with seagate unless I have to... just cuz... no reason.

Jeff
 
I had one maxtor die on me (SMOKE CHECK)

I have replaced one DEAD maxtor for a customer. plenty of WD's but the thing that all of my dead drives have in common is that they had NO COOLING. Get a case that allows you to keep that drive cool and you should be good.
 
Although I prefer Seagate, Maxtor is my second choice with WD being third (if I get a killer rebate on one, I'll do it.)

The Maxtors to avoid are the ones made at the old Quantum facility. Those were horrible drives.

As for the old "Deathstar," ironically.. I've had two of them and neither failed. Guess I'm blessed. 😉
 
I've bought six various Maxtor HD's in the last few years and all have worked perfectly, so far. My next HD will be Seagate, though.
 
Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
Although I prefer Seagate, Maxtor is my second choice with WD being third (if I get a killer rebate on one, I'll do it.)

The Maxtors to avoid are the ones made at the old Quantum facility. Those were horrible drives.

As for the old "Deathstar," ironically.. I've had two of them and neither failed. Guess I'm blessed. 😉
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I honestly think the failure rate of some of the Maxtor drives is higher than that of the Deathstar.

the DM8 fails like there is no tomorrow, I am still having these drives go bad. Some are drives which have already been RMA'd and the 2nd drive has died (2 scenarios) I cant' wait til they're all dead and out of warranty so I can throw more in the garbage where they belong. Those drives cause nothing but headaches for me and what little business of on the side I do have. I have definitely lost business because of their crap, failing, junk product. Needless to say I believe I am the strongest opinion of what Maxtor is on this entire forum.
 
Maxtor's with bad rep??? First I've heard. Although you can't please everyone, all of the time.

I've had NOTHING but Maxtor, down to when I only had a little 10 & 17 gig HD. ALL of my systems, I've used Maxtor on. They are GREAT hard drives. NEVER had a problem with them. Kick is, they are usually so cheap locally, I just pick them up at Office Depot (for the same, if not LESS than online resellers)...that way, if something goes wrong, can get it replaced immediately (within reason)...but then again, never had to do that...just being cautious.

Maxtor has both thumbs up from Dreamer here.


Originally posted by: Thermalrock
since the seagate barracuda 400 wont be for sale till at least december i am thinking 300gb maxtor with 16mb cache. i owned western digitals seagates quantums mactors, ... ive never had a single hdd break. but i keep reading bad stuff about maxtor. are they really that bad?
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I've only owned one and it was fine. It was my 20GB that I finally retired last night when I swapped it for an 80GB Seagate that is much, much faster. I may use it again when building a backup machine for my wife with the spare parts of my old machine. I've had the drive in heavy use for 5 years.
 
I bought 2 IBM 75GXP HDD's and sold them before one year. I had no problems with them. Then I replaced them with 2 IBM 60GXP HDD's. I've had these on 2 of my PC's for over 2 years and have never had any problems with them thus far.
 
Maxtor = 1 failed drive out of maybe a dozen used. Excellent CS on the warranty replacement.
WD = 1 failed drive out of a couple of dozen
Seagate = no failed drives
IBM = 1 failed drive out of a half dozen. CS was so crappy on the warranty replacement that i refused to ever buy another.

My personal experience has been very little difference between any of the 4 brands i have used. Biggest difference has been in Customer service with Maxtor being the best so far for me and IBM the absolute worst.
 
Maxtors are supposed to have poor stability and just aren't really good quality.

I would get Seagate before i get any other drives. Although WD is VERY nice however the lack of fluid bearings annoys me.

-Kevin
 
I don't really think they're as bad as ppl say. But it's just that there are so many more Maxtors out there than for example Seagates and Hitachi's, of course you'll have more ppl complaining about Maxtors.
But my personal preference ranks hd manufactures by the warranty support.
Seagate (5yrs) > Hitachi (3yrs) > Samsung (3yrs?) > Western Digital = Maxtor (1yr)
 
Seagate (5yrs) > Hitachi (3yrs) > Samsung (3yrs?) > Western Digital = Maxtor (1yr)
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Some Maxtors have 1 year while others have 3, depends on model/type from what I can tell. Anyhoo 3 years (>14 hours/day) running strong on mine *knock on wood*.
 
Every Maxtor I've used (maybe a total of 4, if you count the RMA replacements) has developed bad sectors in the first year. Not a good track record, at least for me.
 
Originally posted by: Thermalrock
since the seagate barracuda 400 wont be for sale till at least december i am thinking 300gb maxtor with 16mb cache. i owned western digitals seagates quantums mactors, ... ive never had a single hdd break. but i keep reading bad stuff about maxtor. are they really that bad?
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I've had IBM's and WD crash and burn on me. I have Maxtors in my Desktop, no problems so far.....
 
Originally posted by: Algere
Seagate (5yrs) > Hitachi (3yrs) > Samsung (3yrs?) > Western Digital = Maxtor (1yr)
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Some Maxtors have 1 year while others have 3, depends on model/type from what I can tell. Anyhoo 3 years (>14 hours/day) running strong on mine *knock on wood*.
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You're right. Forgot that Maxtor OEM's 3 yr warranty.
 
From what I have gathered there appears to be some issues with newer drives from Maxtor..esp 160gb drives...

I had one up and die recently 1.5yrs old and retail so warranty was only 1yr(when did that change..sucks)...I have read a good number of complaints on the 160gb maxtor DM9

even some complaints on the new DM10...

So I skipped maxtor for the 5yr warranty from seagate(I could have gone 3yr oem with maxtor but I wanted DM10 and have a little gunshy...after the recent drive death)
 
2 samsung 160gb ide = both good

1 maxtors 120gb ide = was clicky and noisy, almost died i think, but i pulled it, reformated, and is now doing reasonably well in by brothers computer.
 
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