I'm so tired of Maxtor...

[InlineFive]

I've had three Maxtors recently that have all croacked. Two D740Xs that developed a high-pitched whine and now my computer with the Diamondmax 9 says "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER." The computer will sit there saying that for about five minutes and then it will work. The craziest thing is, these drives died (or started dying) consecutively! I know that over the last year that I have posted that Maxtor is good quality, but not ever again.

So, I finally bit the bullet on a Seagate because of their good reputation and 5-year warranty. It is a 200GB, SATA drive from NewEgg. I hope I am not dissapointed as I was with the Maxtors.

"A smart man learns from his mistakes, but a wise man learns from other's mistakes." Take heed wise computer techies.

-Por

 

[Tiamat]

Careful, if you arent buying retail like at BestBuy you might not be getting that 5 year warantee. OEM HDDs have 1 year or "special" warantees.

Sorry to hear about your maxtors and good luck with seagate!

 

[BentValve]

Youve learned nothing if you think having several drives die means that Maxtor makes crap hard drives.

Hopefully youve taken measures to make sure the rest of your system is ok as well otherwise we are likely to be reading a post on how shitety Seatate's hard drives are. :disgust:

 

[Bateluer]

I hear ya, every Maxtor I've ever owned has had issues. The internal drives all croaked on me. I waited a few years, then bought an external 250GB Maxtor drive, which is now having issues as well.

In the words of Maxtor Customer Service, 'its partition tables are corrupt, reformat and repartition.' Been there, done that. Twice. Problem still exists. Ever try backing up over 200GB of data to 4.7GB DVDs? Its not a fun experience.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
Careful, if you arent buying retail like at BestBuy you might not be getting that 5 year warantee. OEM HDDs have 1 year or "special" warantees.

Sorry to hear about your maxtors and good luck with seagate!

At NewEgg it says 5-year warranty on their OEM drives.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: BentValve
Youve learned nothing if you think having several drives die means that Maxtor makes crap hard drives.

Hopefully youve taken measures to make sure the rest of your system is ok as well otherwise we are likely to be reading a post on how shitety Seatate's hard drives are. :disgust:

The rest of the system is fine, thanks.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

All drives will die at some point. I've had drives of many brands and the only one that hasn't given me any problems is the 500MB Fujitsu that is sitting in a drawer somewhere.

 

[DaFinn]

I have been VERY happy with Maxtor, and am currently running 5 at home + all machines at work have them... That said, my 120Gb DM9+ just died on me 2 days ago and my 200Gb disk keeps getting corrupted Never had eny problems with them in the past!!! Hope they can get their thing together!

 

[Transistor]

I've discovered that heat kills HDDs. If you want them to last, then you are going to need some airflow blowing across those drives. Since you have had so many HDDs die in your case, I would bet that there is poor or no airflow where your HDDs are located. Your case may have good airflow, but where your HDDs have failed, there is probably poor or no air flow.

I have four maxtor HDDs in RAID 0 for over 2 years. No problems, good airflow.

 

[Insomniak]

I'm a SeaGate man for life. Maxtor seems to fail as much as IBM/Hitachi these days, and Western Digital isn't what it used to be. Seagate is about the only reliable HDD company anymore IMO.

 

[Regs]

I only expect 2 good years or 3 at the most out of my PATA hard drives. Now that 80 GIG 72k 8mb drives are lower than 50 dollars, I can't complain.

 

[Whitedog]

People has also bashed WD hard drives as well.

I have used WD hard drive Exclusively for over a decade and have never had one problem with any of them.

Probably have owned 15+ of them.

I'm sure some people can tell the same story regarding Maxtor drives as well.

Like Forest Gump said; "It happens".

 

[farmercal]

I have Maxtor, WD & Seagates. All have been working fine for the three years or more that I have owned them. The Maxtor is the newest and I have had no problems.

 

[overclock]

If you bought the same Seagate SATA drives as I did you'll definitely want some air going across those things. The get hot to the touch, very hot. Pop popcorn hot. I put a Panaflo 80mm on them and they are much cooler. And since I run my computer 24/7 it helps. All 7200 RPM drives need some cooling help.

EDIT: I checked on Seagate's web site and even the OEM drives have 5 year warranties. Pretty awesome Seagate. From now on, Seagate only in my system.

 

[batmang]

after working at my job for almost 2 years, i can tell you maxtor is the worst hard drive company ive ever seen. i dont care how " fast " they can be, or how much of bargain they can be, they are CRAP.

they die all the time... all the friggin time.

we get batches from hp, about 50 at a time. literally, 10-20 of them will have bad hard drives. when we get them replaced with western digital's, or seagates, not one of them die.

i think maxtor drives or horrible, sata or ide, i think they suck in general. ive also had 2 maxtors die on me prior to working here, 2 of my own hd's. ive been buying seagate and im now trying samsung. but nothing has died on me since i went away from maxtor, the crapz0r.

 

[gwarbot]

hell ya brothers every maxtor of mine has burned out ive been through 20 different maxtor drives and i finally got pissed off and went with western digital 80 gig. No problems yet had it for about 6 months

 

[Transistor]

Originally posted by: batmang
after working at my job for almost 2 years, i can tell you maxtor is the worst hard drive company ive ever seen. i dont care how " fast " they can be, or how much of bargain they can be, they are CRAP.

they die all the time... all the friggin time.

we get batches from hp, about 50 at a time. literally, 10-20 of them will have bad hard drives. when we get them replaced with western digital's, or seagates, not one of them die.

i think maxtor drives or horrible, sata or ide, i think they suck in general. ive also had 2 maxtors die on me prior to working here, 2 of my own hd's. ive been buying seagate and im now trying samsung. but nothing has died on me since i went away from maxtor, the crapz0r.

I don't think this is Maxtor's fault. Usually bargain PCs from companies like HP come with the really cheap HDDs and not the quality 3-5 year warranty models we put in our PCs. My father-in-law just bought an emachine and the HDD was so cheap, it had a plastic case. Every HDD manufacturer makes different grades of HDDs for different applications. I'm sure that companies like HP have companies bid for a contract to provide the cheapest HDDs. Cut enough corners and that's what you get. The lesson should be don't buy HP, not don't buy Maxtor.

 

[Subhuman25]

I have posted numerous responses on various threads concernign Maxtor drives and have to agree with all those that have said "Maxtor is crap" Because they simply are.I've had 'em fail on me over and over for no apparent reason in shortly into their lifespans.No OEM stuff either,all premium bought,brand new.
I finally learned my lesson and ditched that brand(Maxtor) for good.Good riddance to Maxtor.
Hope they go bankrupt and cease to exist.

 

[w00t]

dam, i was plannin on getting This

 

[madthumbs]

I've installed roughly 30 maxtor hard drives in the past 5 years. I have yet to hear of one dying from anyone I did work for.

 

[uOpt]

Count me in on the "new Maxtors appear to be crap" side.

And I have several Maxtor a few years old which are working perfectly fine. They seems to have dropped the ball with the Diamondplus series, especially the 160 GB ones.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
I've had three Maxtors recently that have all croacked. Two D740Xs that developed a high-pitched whine and now my computer with the Diamondmax 9 says "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER." The computer will sit there saying that for about five minutes and then it will work. The craziest thing is, these drives died (or started dying) consecutively!

That indicates a system problem, not the HDs themselves, more than likely. Power, cooling, vibration, all could be issues. The DX740s were actually a Quantum design, and although they were well-known for developing a whine, I've never heard that they were somehow problematic. DiamondMax Plus9 drives, especially ones with 60GB platters, that's another story.

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
So, I finally bit the bullet on a Seagate because of their good reputation and 5-year warranty. It is a 200GB, SATA drive from NewEgg. I hope I am not dissapointed as I was with the Maxtors.

I'd take a good hard look at your system, and your power and cooling, and make sure that there arn't any factors present that could lead to the premature death of another HD.

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
"A smart man learns from his mistakes, but a wise man learns from other's mistakes." Take heed wise computer techies.

Indeed.

 

[WobbleWobble]

I've used 2xD740X and still use 2xDM+9 and haven't had issues... all working fine.

 

[UncleWai]

I just got two of mine Maxtor broken within one month.
I already switched camp to Seagate.
Quiet > *

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
I've had three Maxtors recently that have all croacked. Two D740Xs that developed a high-pitched whine and now my computer with the Diamondmax 9 says "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER." The computer will sit there saying that for about five minutes and then it will work. The craziest thing is, these drives died (or started dying) consecutively!

That indicates a system problem, not the HDs themselves, more than likely. Power, cooling, vibration, all could be issues. The DX740s were actually a Quantum design, and although they were well-known for developing a whine, I've never heard that they were somehow problematic. DiamondMax Plus9 drives, especially ones with 60GB platters, that's another story.

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
So, I finally bit the bullet on a Seagate because of their good reputation and 5-year warranty. It is a 200GB, SATA drive from NewEgg. I hope I am not dissapointed as I was with the Maxtors.

I'd take a good hard look at your system, and your power and cooling, and make sure that there arn't any factors present that could lead to the premature death of another HD.

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
"A smart man learns from his mistakes, but a wise man learns from other's mistakes." Take heed wise computer techies.

Indeed.

Hmm, I don't see anything wrong.

1. There is an airflow channel right over the hard drive. It stays around 30c on average.
2. All power rails are exactly on mark (+12v=12.04v) with a Fortron FSP350 PSU. I have been running this, a floppy drive and a CDROM off of the same rail and nothing has happened to the other two. Because of the SATA interface I will need to bring a specific cable down for this one though.
3. The case has little vibration.