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i have been using 2 wd drives for the past year with no side effects. just yesterday i recieved a new 300gb maxtor drive from newegg. i only read about all the problems people seem to be having with maxtor after i ordered the drive. since yesterday i have noticed that the drive is consderably louder than my 2 wd drives, but maybe that's just because it's 300gb. so far performance-wise it seems to be working fine *knock on wood*.
Don't know about SATA, but I had 3 PATA WD 200Gb that failed. Since they were on warranty, I send them back to WD and they send me 3 other (refurbished) drives. I now have one of these drives that just failed in a raid5 and I have to send it back again... Can't imagine Maxtor can't do better...
I have a Western Digital hard drive that is lasting over 10 years and more. My IBM model 75GXP, known to fail sooner than it should, has lasted 5 years with no problems.
I do have one Maxtor (20 GB) and two Seagate (120 GB each) drives to just try them out. Both Maxtor and Seagate drives penalizes my system's performance. Because of this, I use the two Seagate drives for file backups and the Maxtor drive for DVD or video re-encoding and testing other Linux distributions.
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Originally posted by KimVette Judge by the standard warranty a manufacturer offers. Seagate offers a minimum of 5 (five) years across the board - 7 years on some models. That a company is willing to take on a liability like that tells you that their MBTF may be reliable, vs. the likes of Western Digital or Maxtor who knocked the warranty on many|most of their products to one year.
You want to base your decision on warranty and MBTF. It is not my money you are using. Seagate may never replace the drive in 5 or 7 years from now. Hard drives in that time will be a few terabytes and a lot better. Just buy a new hard drive if the old one fails. I base my decision on hard drive performance. The brands that I select is either Hitach or Western Digital.
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Am I actually seeing this? Because something about that just sounds wrong.
Any single hard drive can easily transfer 20 MB per second, so basing the hard drive speed on throughput is only half of it. An OS needs a hard drive that has low accessing times and lower latency. IBM/Hitachi and Western Digital has very good accessing times and low latency. Seagate and Maxtor are the worst drives to use for an OS.
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Maxtors are SH*IT! I would use any other brand HD than maxtor.
Working at my company, over the last 6 years I've seen hundreds if not thousands of hard drives in use. Every type, and I can say with only my opinion that this is the list of drives from most reliable to most unreliable:
Seagate scsi, western digital ide, seagate ide, samsung ide, maxtor ide.
Maxtors were such a problem in one line of desktops that we requested that they send western digitals as replacements, no problems after. BTW, the IBM deathstars we're manufactured by maxtor.
Maxtor is only second to fujitsu, which I have seen so many bad out of that I would not personally buy one, or accept one even as a gift. I MIGHT accept a maxtor, but it would have be a really nice one.
I've been using Maxtor hard disks exclusively for the last 15 years and have never had a single one fail. In fact, the first Maxtor I ever bought, a 650 Meg ESDI drive for a 386-25Mhz, is still functioning.
Every single Maxtor drive I and other members of my family/friends have owned in the past 5 years has failed in some way or another within a few months of the warranty expiring. I've had 2 go on me in the past 3 months alone. I will not ever buy maxtor again.
edit: There was no mistreatment of these drives, they have been used in normal small business or home settings, no undue stress put on them.
I noticed this thread and have to add my comments as well. There was a time I used Maxtor drives exclusively in my personal workstations and specified their use at client locations. Like purelithium, I have seen every single Maxtor drive I own fail within a few months of the warranty expiring. None of these drives are abused and all see light service. They were used at various locations in quality computers with name brand voltage regulating UPS systems, etc. At client locations, the only drives we have seen fail are the Maxtor drives. I must add that I have never lost a WD, Hitachi or Seagate drive.
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