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OMG I'm SO mad *update* It lives!!

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galt

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I was complaining a month ago because my 60gxp died after 6 months and I had to RMA it. Well, I got a new 60gb Maxtor from CompUSA THREE WEEKS ago and today when I tried to boot all I heard was THUNK ..... THUNK .... THUNK. Like dropping a screwdriver from 6 inches off the ground. No boot, no windows. If I reboot, sometimes the bios doesnt even detect the hdd. I had just restored everything, gotten back all my settings 🙁

I'm not even sure if I should call Maxtor or take this poo-poo-platter hdd back to CompUSA. After everything good I heard about Maxtor ..... this is so disheartening. 3 weeks. I've had a carton of milk that's survived longer than that. Are there no reliable hard drives left out there??
 
Waht are you doing with those poor hard drives??!?!? My Maxtors, all 7 of them are awesome drives.
 
I've had two Maxtors crap out on me. I have a 120GXP now... awesome drive, as long as it doesn't go the way of past IBM drives.
 
If the two occurances happened simply by chance, you just had extremely bad luck. Maxtor drives, in general, are just as reliable as anything else out there.
 
Originally posted by: CubicZirconia
If the two occurances happened simply by chance, you just had extremely bad luck. Maxtor drives, in general, are just as reliable as anything else out there.
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I have no doubts Maxtor drives are great quality, I've just begun to doubt my luck with them. 🙂
 
I've concluded that there are plenty of lemons among all the brands to go around. I started with a 60gxp (dead w/in3 months), replaced it with a Western Digital (very loud whine from day 1), and now am using 'cuda IV (so far, so good). Sold my IBM replacement drive. Kept replacement Western Digital (it ended up nearly as quiet as my 'cuda IV).
 
Yeah, seems durability is something that's being traded off bigtime in all drives, HDs and CDroms. CD dies you don't lose anything though so it's not quite as annoying...

*1 IBM RMA so far
*3 Dead CDroms (two burners, one Plextor scsi rom)
 
now that I think about it...my most reliable drives are Segate! They don't have the fastest IDE drives, but they have the quitest and I think the most reliable. I also like their SCSI drives...15,000RPM Goodness on Ultra360 SCSI RAID would be extreme.
 
Hey, and I thought my 60GXP was bad. Mine is about to die after 10 months. I'm just gonna a WD to replace it. But to have Maxtors fail on you, that must be bad luck. Kinda reminds of the trouble I had with Quantums. I had to RMA a drive like 3 times before I got one that worked... Not to mention Quantum kept sending me bigger and bigger drives, hehe 😀
 
Except I had a Seagate die a horrible death on me after about a year. The old click of death thingy.

Got 2 maxtors in there now. But they are brand new, so cant really say anything yet. I did quit powering down every night. I think the restarting every day was adding wear to them.
 
We upgraded to the office 6 machines and a server a little over a year ago. With Seagate drives. 3 of those seagates died on me in less than 3 months. I swiched all drives to Maxtors, and theyve been running like a charm without any probs.

Im also running 2 D740X 40Gigs w. fluid bearings at home and love them!!! Silent and FAST!

No Seagates for me thanks...
 
Well, the darnest thing happened. After my computer refused to boot for the 6+ times I tried, I said "screw it" and went and watched some tv and ate some watermelon. (watermelon is sooo good on hot summer evenings). I then made this post. And when I went back to my computer armed with my backup cds ... the sucker booted. No "THUNK"s. Windows is up and running again. Everything works fine. Whats up with that? Now I'm in a worse condition than I was last night. Last night I had decided to get a new hard drive and be over with it. But now, I have a working drive, but know that it can possibly die at any random point.

What do I do now? Return it nontheless? Or just forget about the god awful THUNKS from last night and just carry on?
 
Get a new drive, get a copy of DiskCopy, Ghost, etc and move everything over to the new drive ASAP. I had exactly the same problems with my Fujitsu drive recently. I suspect part of the problem was thermal because if I let the system sit off for a bit, everything would work as normal for a while, then the clunking and BSOD in XP.
 
I'm still not sure if I should return this thing to Maxtor or CompUSA. I really don't feel like putting more data on that thing knowing it may leave town any day. What's worse is that it's my primary hdd. I have a 60gxp for storage, and there' no way I'm trusting that thing with important data. Anybody know what I should do?
 
This had been mentioned in another thread, but it really does seem that since companies have started using these newer additives to increase capacity (ie. IBM's "PixieDust"), these big drives are getting crappy. I've got 40 MB, 720 MB, 1.0 GB, 2.5 GB, and 4.0 GB drives that live forever. These 60,'s 80's, and on seem to die pretty quickly.

But never the SCSI drives? I know they're built to higher standards, they use the same platter tech for density, but they're lower capacity. Shouldn't this be telling the manu's something?

Anyone else agree?
 
Originally posted by: galt
I'm still not sure if I should return this thing to Maxtor or CompUSA. I really don't feel like putting more data on that thing knowing it may leave town any day. What's worse is that it's my primary hdd. I have a 60gxp for storage, and there' no way I'm trusting that thing with important data. Anybody know what I should do?
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I'd return it to CompUSA.
 
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