Originally posted by: Subhuman25
Originally posted by: drednox
wow, that is weird. maxtor drives have always worked great for me, they have nice specs and were easiest to install as well.
the only HD i have ever had die on me was an IBM, it was fast as hell for its time, but i guess it paid in lack of durability for that performance.
Like Teauton stated above,if you do some research you'll find Maxtor falls in the "most failed" crowd of HD's.They are notoriously failure prone.Much like the IBM "DeathStar" series were notorious for failure.
Except Maxtor has a much longer history of it than say the IBM's ever lived.
Like I said,I've used Maxtor's several times over the years in various builds,giving them the benefit of the doubt and counting on my past experience with them as a single unlucky event,but over and over I've been disappointed with recurring failures.
Reasons for my choice to go with Maxtor were often a review article or "guide" recommendation such as here on AnandTech.And we all know how either of those can fail you tremendously.Or can you say that everything AnandTech recommends in it's guides are the best and have never failed or disappointed you?
Sure,you may be one of the lucky ones and not experience a problem ... yet,but that doesn't paint an overall picture.The proof is in the many posts,threads,articles of the many Maxtor users you can find all over the web.And the picture ain't pretty.
On the other hand Seagate & Western Digital have built an extremely good reputation in the HD dept. as evidenced.
Also I believe they both have sold more over the years than Maxtor,wich thins out any problems listed anywhere even more so.Perfect they aren't,but far far more relliable.Maybe not always the top performer,but a lot of times HD comparisons are splitting hairs when it comes to performance anyways.So who really cares.A HD's main function is to store data.And that means reliability is your #1 concern.And Maxtor doesn't afford one much assurance of reliability.It's as simple as that.