Originally posted by: SimMike2
I've had excellent luck with Maxtor drives. They have been more reliable for me than either WD, Seagate, IBM and Hitachi - combined! What has been most disturbing about the failure of these other brands is the lack of warning. With Maxtor, you can usually tell something is going on, which gives you time to backup and maybe swap out the drive for warranty work. WD is notorious for sudden failures. Seagate and IBM (Hitachi now) are famous for hard to get warranty work.
I had to jump in there because he said something about Seagate not being reliable.
You sir, are an idiot.
www.storagereview.com drive reliability survey. Of 1900 7200.7 drives in the database, they have been calculated to be 89.8% more reliable than ALL other drives in the database.
I am a MCSB with an output of 800 systems so far this year. All have 7200.7 or 7200.8 drives. I have never had one fail. I haven't even had one damaged in shipping, DOA, or otherwise defective.
Seagate drives are a testament to modern engineering.
Do your math. Find me someone who's had a Seagate fail on them since the advent of the Baracuda V that wasn't caused unnaturally (crap PSU, poor cooling, physical abuse) although these drives put up to practically anything.
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Ohh Holy Mother of God, I finished reading this morons post about pre-emptive warning of Maxtor drives.
Considering Maxtor drives generally mailfunction from electronic component failure, you are regularely giving NO warning and just a symptom of a) click of death/head sync failure or b) complete controller failure/initialization failure.
Both cases result in irrecoverable data, both cases are the most common for all hard drives, not just Maxtors. The difference between Maxtor and everyone else is they run excessively HOT (read ANY review of maxtor drives, they are HOT HOT HOT compared to Seagate and WD, for example) which using the laws of physics, heat diminishes lifespan of transistor integrated circuits.
You further admitted having a Maxtor drive fail on you by stating it gave you 'warning before failure.' Exactly how many times have you experienced this? Don't you consider this unreliable that your drives continue to FAIL?
Currently Maxtor has 1 year warranty on OEM, 3 year warranty on 'some' retail drives. I won't comment on WD's warranty since it functions pretty much the same, but Seagate has a 5 year warranty on ALL storage products, even past products predating the new warranty standard (you have a drive from 2001? good, you can RMA that 10GB doot if you needed.)
I've RMA'd Maxtor drives, its a pain in the arse because they purchased Quantum and the drives has rediculous S/N and Model # schema's. It is harder in my experience to RMA a Maxtor than ANY other brand. Furthermore, drives I receive back from Maxtor generally are cosmetically blemished, refurbished (obviously) and sometimes DOA. WTF?
I can't help but think you actually know what your talking about. I'm sure by now it looks like I'm picking on you, but I really hope nobody reads your propaganda and believes it. Then I'll just have to deal with more morons in the general public cus they 'heard' this bs from 'somewhere.'
Ohh yea,
Maxtor stock= <$5
Seagate stock= $20
Whats amusing here is that Maxtor is a HUGE company compared to Seagate, yet they have less capitol and investment. They also make a wider range of products since purchasing Quantum, including common-place DLT drives. Yet, they are struggling and recently lost their CFO from internal corruption. I can't help but ask why this company is still in business.