Coss Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 For those of us thinking about buying Maxtor... My compatriot has just had the 8th maxtor in 3 months die on him. Maybe that's why they're cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adikgede Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 I baught one about a year ago for a home pc and it was dead inside of six weeks. I wasn't crazy about Quantum either which I believe was baught by Maxtor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danish30 Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 They have always been cheap, low quality, slow, and very noisy. Some extra cooling might keep them alive a little longer, but better to pay a little extra for better quality. Best regards, Danish30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 Yeah, tend to agree with you there, Maxtors and Western Digital ... not renowned for their quality. I find Seagate to be pretty reliable. Quantum are not bad. IBM would be top of the pile but then they're top of the cost pile also! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaronTT Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 Another me too post. Used to get Maxtors but they were slow and unreliable. Same for Western Digital. I've had good luck with Quantum. First choice is IBM, second is Seagate. Seagates seem to be nice and quiet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shit-Spattered Dog Posted April 2, 2003 Report Share Posted April 2, 2003 Says coss: For those of us thinking about buying Maxtor... My compatriot has just had the 8th maxtor in 3 months die on him. Maybe that's why they're cheap. [/quote Fujitsu are decents drives, unfortunaly they stopped selling them on this side of the world...I think Fujitsu quit making hard drives all together. Shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pom Michael Posted April 2, 2003 Report Share Posted April 2, 2003 No more IBM's, now they are made by Hitachi ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlton68 Posted April 7, 2003 Report Share Posted April 7, 2003 Hi, I've to save a little reputation for MAxtor. I had an older model of their drives, a 20GB which now runs smoothly in my sisters PC. No Problems with the drive ever. Some month ago I bought two 120 GB drives from Maxtor and use them purely as storage with an onboard Raid controller. Raid controller set to purely ATA, no Raid function enabled. Made several partitions and the primary partition of one drive I use for backups, done with backupgenie. Now every time I want to access that partition in the windows explorer the system takes some 5 minutes until the content of the partition is displayed, and during that time I could not do much else as the computer was using 100% CPU. I thougt I have a bad drive and already copied all data to other drives in order to take it out and send it back. Then the same problem happened on the other drive where my backup files where copied to. After some checking I disabled my antivirus software and the problem was gone. Turned out the antivirus was set to check zip-archieves and just took to long to check these 15 GB of zips. Not always the drive is at fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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