Maxtor Hard Drive Problem.. Help NEEDED!!

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Posted by You aint Ninja on Sep-14-2003 03:43:

He's right.

Maxtors are teh sux. Mine makes clicking noises. The only thing their good for is the cheap price they come by. Unfortunately, it's still like buying a peice of shit cheaply.

Posted by DigiNut on Sep-14-2003 03:44:

quote:
Originally posted by You aint Ninja
He's right.

Maxtors are teh sux. Mine makes clicking noises. The only thing their good for is the cheap price they come buy. Unfortunately, it's still like buying a peice of shit cheaply.

^ and we should listen to you because...?

Maxtor did make shit drives, about 5 years ago, but those days are long over.

Posted by Orbax on Sep-14-2003 03:51:

psst youre the only one who believes you

Posted by MrSquirrel on Sep-14-2003 04:02:

quote:
Originally posted by DigiNut
^ and we should listen to you because...?

Maxtor did make shit drives, about 5 years ago, but those days are long over.

I find that hard drive "trouble" from different brands varies from person to person. You say "never ever buy an IBM" but I have never had any problems with IBM drives, the lab I worked in used to have 40 of them in our fileserver running under heavy loads from both web and unix scratch disk operations. Never had one failure then.

I personally have not had good experiences with Quantum drives and have had excellent experience with Seagate. A friend of mine has had exactly the opposite experience.

Yes, every drive can fail. Some models are more prone than others. It is a mechanical device and any mechanical device will fail, especially ones that are as precise as a hard disk has to be.

Live and learn I say....and when you sart to have weird happenings on your computer:

BACK IT UP IMMEDIATELY!

Has saved my ass twice in the past.

MrS
(not a professional in IT)

Posted by igottaknow on Sep-14-2003 04:04:

i agree with dignut, all drives have failures, maxtor is no worse than the rest. btw i own 40g maxtor and western digital drive, so i guess that would make me qualified...

Posted by moncster on Sep-14-2003 04:06:

quote:
Originally posted by MrSquirrel
I find that hard drive "trouble" from different brands varies from person to person. You say "never ever buy an IBM" but I have never had any problems with IBM drives, the lab I worked in used to have 40 of them in our fileserver running under heavy loads from both web and unix scratch disk operations. Never had one failure then.

I personally have not had good experiences with Quantum drives and have had excellent experience with Seagate. A friend of mine has had exactly the opposite experience.

Yes, every drive can fail. Some models are more prone than others. It is a mechanical device and any mechanical device will fail, especially ones that are as precise as a hard disk has to be.

Live and learn I say....and when you sart to have weird happenings on your computer:

BACK IT UP IMMEDIATELY!

Has saved my ass twice in the past.

MrS
(not a professional in IT)

Make an encrypted image of your HD, and split it into ~700mb files. Rename them into names such as DvDrip_Lord_of_the_Rings_II_JkWrls_2003.avi
Share on Kazaa.

Posted by DigiNut on Sep-14-2003 04:07:

Actually, you're right MrS, I should revise that - IBM drives for servers have an excellent reputation, it's just their workstation drives that are often troublesome.

But yes, it is very individual, and no matter what the statistics show about a particular drive, it is still only a probability and not a given.

It's just in the case of someone saying that "this drive sucks", that I ask that that person actually show some statistical evidence, or else limit their commentary to "I've had bad experience with this product."

Posted by DigiNut on Sep-14-2003 04:12:

quote:
Originally posted by moncster
Make an encrypted image of your HD, and split it into ~700mb files. Rename them into names such as DvDrip_Lord_of_the_Rings_II_JkWrls_2003.avi
Share on Kazaa.

LOL, that is an awesome idea! Just hope that no one renames it though, right?

Posted by jon on Sep-14-2003 07:00:

http://www.storagereview.com/ is a good site for harddrives, they have a database of user submited feedback on drives.

ALWAYS make backups, theres other reasons to other than a faulty harddrive such as; theft of pc, fire in house, friend doing a format c: for a joke, virus etc

As to drive reliability, i've used seagate, WD, maxtor and fujitsi, the only drive iv had problems with was the seagate which i returned under warenty and got a replacement, and the replacements started to act all weird again now, though seagate only send out "repaired" drives as replacements and never brand new ones...

Posted by [mart] on Sep-14-2003 09:05:

My 40gig Maxtor drive is still going strong after a year of constant abuse...perhaps you were just unlucky, although the specific problem you're having sounds a bit peculiar.

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