Maxtor, what the hell.

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Tomdarkness

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Hey,

I purchased a Maxtor hard drive around 1 and a half years ago. It has been sent back not once but twice and now the third hard drive they send me is failing.

Seriously pissed off with Maxtor now, anyone got any suggestions as I don't really want to buy a new hard drive if I can avoid it?

Thanks,

Tom
 
You will want a new one but not Maxtor by the sounds of it. Back in the 90s even though I was already running WDs in a few prebuilds I was told: "stay away from those M_x__r pieces of ... #$@! they fly apart!". Try a WD or Seagate you'lll be far better off.
 
How do you figure it's failing? Typical clicking, long access -time, or something else?

What model Drive is it? I'm sitting on an 80GB SATA2 that's been in my system for about 2 years now, never a problem. It could have been a bad batch the company you purchased from received - stuff like that happens.
 
Nasty sounding loud hard drive noices and corruption. Also I got a few errors in my error log that when I asked about them on TechNet forums I got a response from some guy at Microsoft saying the 99% of the time its caused by failing hardware.

Its a Maxtor 7Y250M0 250GB hard drive.


imsati said:
How do you figure it's failing? Typical clicking, long access -time, or something else?

What model Drive is it? I'm sitting on an 80GB SATA2 that's been in my system for about 2 years now, never a problem. It could have been a bad batch the company you purchased from received - stuff like that happens.
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Originally when drive sizes were first seen climbing over the 10gb capacity Maxtor failed immediately with their 16gb drives. Back then I had someone who switched to a WD 13gb and stated 16gb drives were too brittle. That source reported having Maxtor drives "fly apart" was the description then.

In the next few years formatting, partitioning, seeing Windows installed was the typical complant heard about problems seen with that brand. You would think that they would have cleaned up some problems after that amount of time.

The recommendation would be at least changing models if not brand if they are having a problem with that line or even going to another vendor to see if the same problems are seen with an identical drive. The easy way however is go for a more reliable brand like WD or Seagate since those generally see good results.
 
Hopefully you won't either. A friend's Hitachi bit the dust. The 80gb there was bought when first putting the case together and later added a WD 250 for storage. Well the WD is now the single drive when the other didn't last long.
 
To me overall Hitachi and Maxtor are crap. Your best luck is to stick with W/D RE- Seagate or Samsung drives. Going to hear, I,ve got a Maxtor or Hitachi and they work just fine, I have too but by % wise the amount of drives I buy there the worse for failures
 
I've heard more headaches about Maxtors over the years when compared to any other brand out. You can run into a bad batch of drives with any brand if one gets out to a vendor. But the consistancy about Maxtor goes further then just one model like how about complaints a decade ago until now.

In that last decade believe or not while the REs are the higher end WD line there only one SE Caviar failed to date. The 5yr. old 120gb ide model simply couldn't take the heat when it was out to a friend who never cleans dust out of case! Try pulling a blanket of dust off of a board when later being asked to setup a 200gb sata model.

(gee? he finally borrowed a can of air cleaner lately! "amazing!" :eek: :P )
 
I've never heard too many problems with Hitachis being a rather recent brand name. But a friend won't be buying any more after the first one he had failed on him in a recent build.

For the most part you generally stay with a brand that sees the best results. The person mentioned there likes to collect old drives having a few ancient 50mb and 200mb WD drives that appear in good working shape despite their age.
 
I'd had lots of problems with Maxtor too. Someone bought me a Maxtor 5 years ago and I didn't wanna put it to waste so I'm using that and that one seems to be fine... 1 out of 4 maxtor hd's work fine for me
 
You will generally see working drives with any brand. It's just the volume of complaints on various problems tend to stack up against Maxtor often.
 
PC eye said:
I've never heard too many problems with Hitachis being a rather recent brand name.
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Really? I knew some member call Hitachi as 'Dead Star':D
As far as I knew, IBM computer used to use Hitachi HDD, and it is a common cause of 'dead' IBM.
 
Tomdarkness said:
I purchased a Maxtor hard drive around 1 and a half years ago. It has been sent back not once but twice and now the third hard drive they send me is failing.
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Oh please... I went through 6 Maxtor drives. This was back when 30GB was quite large. After I think it was four 30GB drives, they sent me a 40GB. After two of those, I got my final drive and just sold it to someone. I later talked with the guy and he said it failed too. :rolleyes:
 
Good Gravy all right! I'm still hearing complaints on that one brand for over 10yrs. now! Someone raved about how quiet IBM drives are but then quickly buys a WD sata when upgrading? That IBM could have well been one of those Max...tur whatevers.

"Those drives are total crap!" was one loud statement heard by someone with a let's close to Einstein capacity back then. The average user is simply finding out the hard way on their own with Maxtor apparently not doing anything to see improvements after this amount of time?! (lame management :rolleyes: )
 
Darn I didn't know maxtors were this bad I'm running one now and its been going fine for a about a year and a bit now- in the next build I think I'll stick with a seagate.
 
thank god i didnt try to cheap out, i almost chose a maxtor 320gb instead of the WD caviar i ended up choosing. and its a semi-noticeable bump in performance from my old IDE 5400RPM drive.
 
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