bought a 300gig made by them on newegg less then a year ago, possibly 6 months or so... already shit out on me, granted i got my data off it with some recovery and i have a 5 year warranty on it but shit, thats the horrible reliablity... less then a year on a 5 year warranted product.

I have the following hard drives, all Maxtor:
20GB, 60GB, 80GB, 160GB, 250GB

The 20GB drive has been in use for over 4 years, the 60&80GB drives over
three years, the 160GB about 1 1/2 years, and the 250GB for a year.

I've never had an issue with any of them.

On the other hand, I've had two Western Digital drives in the past 4 years
and one has crapped out already and the other one is making 'noises'.

Just my experience.

> I have the following hard drives, all Maxtor:
> 20GB, 60GB, 80GB, 160GB, 250GB
>
> The 20GB drive has been in use for over 4 years, the 60&80GB drives over
> three years, the 160GB about 1 1/2 years, and the 250GB for a year.
>
> I've never had an issue with any of them.
>
> On the other hand, I've had two Western Digital drives in the past 4 years
> and one has crapped out already and the other one is making 'noises'.
>
> Just my experience.
>
>
>
>
>

The dickhead that answered was a stoner that kept calling me "dude". He couldn't tell his dick from a doorknob. I asked him if he was for real, and he giggled like a little girl. I never bought a WD drive since. And I've never had a Maxtor EIDE drive crap out on me. Although the only one I have left is inside my Playstation 2.

> I have the following hard drives, all Maxtor:
> 20GB, 60GB, 80GB, 160GB, 250GB
>
> The 20GB drive has been in use for over 4 years, the 60&80GB drives over
> three years, the 160GB about 1 1/2 years, and the 250GB for a year.
>
> I've never had an issue with any of them.
>
> On the other hand, I've had two Western Digital drives in the past 4 years
> and one has crapped out already and the other one is making 'noises'.
>
> Just my experience.
>
>
>
>
>

> > I have the following hard drives, all Maxtor:
> > 20GB, 60GB, 80GB, 160GB, 250GB
> >
> > The 20GB drive has been in use for over 4 years, the 60&80GB drives over
> > three years, the 160GB about 1 1/2 years, and the 250GB for a year.
> >
> > I've never had an issue with any of them.
> >
> > On the other hand, I've had two Western Digital drives in the past 4 years
> > and one has crapped out already and the other one is making 'noises'.
> >
> > Just my experience.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

Some wiseass doesn't come up with a hard drive like device that you can
plug flash media/drives into to increase the storage capacity.

For example, you buy the FlashDRiVE (c). It looks like a USB hub.
It comes with no storage built-in. You plug your 4GB USB flash drive
into it, and the computer now 'sees' a 4GB hard drive. Put, say, 10 connections
on the device and have an initial maximum storage capacity of 40GB.
Be able to upgrade the storage capacity limit via a firmware upgrade.

Make this device bootable and you're ready to rock. Oh, and connect it to
the PC via a 1394a or 1394b connection for speed. USB 2.0 is too unreliable.

I had, and at my job where we have an internet cafe the boss won't buy anything from them anymore.

> > I have the following hard drives, all Maxtor:
> > 20GB, 60GB, 80GB, 160GB, 250GB
> >
> > The 20GB drive has been in use for over 4 years, the 60&80GB drives over
> > three years, the 160GB about 1 1/2 years, and the 250GB for a year.
> >
> > I've never had an issue with any of them.
> >
> > On the other hand, I've had two Western Digital drives in the past 4 years
> > and one has crapped out already and the other one is making 'noises'.
> >
> > Just my experience.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>


_ _ - - = = Pr3tty F1y = = - - _ _

> > I have the following hard drives, all Maxtor:
> > 20GB, 60GB, 80GB, 160GB, 250GB
> >
> > The 20GB drive has been in use for over 4 years, the 60&80GB drives over
> > three years, the 160GB about 1 1/2 years, and the 250GB for a year.
> >
> > I've never had an issue with any of them.
> >
> > On the other hand, I've had two Western Digital drives in the past 4 years
> > and one has crapped out already and the other one is making 'noises'.
> >
> > Just my experience.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

All the disk problems I've ever had:

1.084 GB Maxtor out of my mom's Packard Bell starts dropping sectors; replaced with a 3 GB WD (LIVIN' LARGE, BIYOTCHEZ). One "low-level" format later it no longer drops sectors. It should still work, although I haven't used it in about five years.

80 GB Western Digital, Windows starts reporting disk write errors; one "low-level" format later WD Diagnostics says "You're fucked." Replace drive with 80 GB Seagate; RMA WD about two weeks before its warranty expires (3 years). Replacement OK so far (little over a year).

60 GB IBM 60GXP, while installing it in a system I hear a *snap* while plugging in a PATA-SATA converter. Boot up, drive spins but doesn't recognize. Who knew that pin 18 is important for drive communications? It should still work if I solder a new pin into the connector, but I haven't had the motivation (or the soldering iron) to do anything about it.

BTW, Maxtor is now owned by Seagate. I'll still be going with Seagate for the time being (how much drugs will I have to sell to get four EIDE and two SATA 750 GB 'Cudas?).

right now, i am running a Seagate 40GB as my main drive and a old Seagate 4.3Gb as a download drive. No problems ever since i bought them, and the 4.3gb one is really old.

On my fatherīs computer i am running a 20gb Seagate drive, and besides its unnatural skill to collect dust, its running flawless.

WD on ther hand, i have 3 of them (20GBs Caviars) piled up, 1 10GB with no model written on it.
2 Maxtors (1 is 40GB and one is 1.2GB) also crapped out on me. So, i guess Seagate likes me. i think.


> bought a 300gig made by them on newegg less then a year ago, possibly 6 months
> or so... already shit out on me, granted i got my data off it with some recovery
> and i have a 5 year warranty on it but shit, thats the horrible reliablity...
> less then a year on a 5 year warranted product.
>

> All the disk problems I've ever had:
>
> 1.084 GB Maxtor out of my mom's Packard Bell starts dropping sectors; replaced
> with a 3 GB WD (LIVIN' LARGE, BIYOTCHEZ). One "low-level" format later it no
> longer drops sectors. It should still work, although I haven't used it in about
> five years.
>
> 80 GB Western Digital, Windows starts reporting disk write errors; one
> "low-level" format later WD Diagnostics says "You're fucked." Replace drive
> with 80 GB Seagate; RMA WD about two weeks before its warranty expires (3
> years). Replacement OK so far (little over a year).
>
> 60 GB IBM 60GXP, while installing it in a system I hear a *snap* while plugging
> in a PATA-SATA converter. Boot up, drive spins but doesn't recognize. Who knew
> that pin 18 is important for drive communications? It should still work if I
> solder a new pin into the connector, but I haven't had the motivation (or the
> soldering iron) to do anything about it.
>
> BTW, Maxtor is now owned by Seagate. I'll still be going with Seagate for the
> time being

yeah i read about that when i was checking the warranty, happened last month 22nd

(how much drugs will I have to sell to get four EIDE and two SATA 750
> GB 'Cudas?).
>

I've had 4 or 5 WDs, the only one that didn't take a shit was a Raptor. One of them went down within two months, and another went down within 6. I've had two Maxtors. No problems, but one is still pretty new (PS2 drive) and the other wasn't from the era where supposedly their drives were terrible. I'm on my third Seagate and I think they're great.

> bought a 300gig made by them on newegg less then a year ago, possibly 6 months
> or so... already shit out on me, granted i got my data off it with some recovery
> and i have a 5 year warranty on it but shit, thats the horrible reliablity...
> less then a year on a 5 year warranted product.
>
I've had Maxtors die, IBM "Deathstars" die, and WD. You guys are fucking ridiculous to believe any one company has worse drives than another. Support, on the other hand, is another matter.

My only drive failures, both in the same machine:

1x Maxtor 40GB ATA
1x Western Digital 60GB ATA

The Maxtor was bought before the WD, but died later, after the 3 year warranty was up. The WD only had a 1 year warranty and died after 2 1/2 years. Bad luck I guess. At least I wasn't using the computer for anything important anymore at that point.

-nZero

I've had an 80gig maxtor running fine for 3 years, 2 80gig WD's for 4 years, a 60gig WD for 5 years, a 27gig WD for six years, a 213meg samsung for 10 years. The only drive I've had fail on me is a 4.3gig quantum Bigfoot that failed after 9 months and I RMA'd and has been working ever since.

I kind of wonder what everyone else is doing wrong with there WD's. maybe they give yanks the crap ones!