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Originally posted by moncster Always do offsite backups

youre telling me, i pulled my 900 meghtz comp outta the attic, dusted it off, and nows its a storage dump

it just sucks because i dont understand why my crappy 5gb hard disk never failed on me for like 3 years and this piece of sh!t died on me in weeks.. its just stressful to see that stupid message come up..

can anyone provide a website with any setups that will help me with my maxtor 40.00 gb 7200 rpm? thanks..

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Honestly, I've never had a problem with Maxtors, and in the IT field, I've installed them in dozens of other computers that have never had a problem.

Could it be that some of you just don't take proper care of your PC's, and are blaming it on the hard drive? I'm getting a little sick and tired of people on TA (and I really only hear this from 3 or 4 people, all of whom reside on TA in the chillout forum) saying that Maxtors are crap without any correlative proof of this (i.e. documented bugs, schematics, mechanical info, or even the ability to reproduce a particular error).

Just so you all know, in the computer engineering industry, no drive is "crash proof", i.e. they all have a MTF (Mean Time to Failure) - obviously this statistic isn't published, but keep in mind that it exists for ALL drives. I know just as many people who've had their WD or Seagate drives screw up - and to recommend IBM! Oh my god, don't ever buy a drive from IBM!!!

Two programs you want to run: spinrite and Maxtor's own drive utility from www.maxtor.com.

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Originally posted by DigiNut Honestly, I've never had a problem with Maxtors, and in the IT field, I've installed them in dozens of other computers that have never had a problem. Could it be that some of you just don't take proper care of your PC's, and are blaming it on the hard drive? I'm getting a little sick and tired of people on TA (and I really only hear this from 3 or 4 people, all of whom reside on TA in the chillout forum) saying that Maxtors are crap without any correlative proof of this (i.e. documented bugs, schematics, mechanical info, or even the ability to reproduce a particular error). Just so you all know, in the computer engineering industry, no drive is "crash proof", i.e. they all have a MTF (Mean Time to Failure) - obviously this statistic isn't published, but keep in mind that it exists for ALL drives. I know just as many people who've had their WD or Seagate drives screw up - and to recommend IBM! Oh my god, don't ever buy a drive from IBM!!! Two programs you want to run: spinrite and Maxtor's own drive utility from www.maxtor.com.

The 40 gig Maxtor has a reputation for failing prematurely. That and a VIA IDE controller is a bad bad bad combination.

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Originally posted by Orbax no, its just the the Maxtors are utter pieces of shit. given enough time, it will fail, like a prostate

well, on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.


i've had a 40gb maxtor for over a year now and had no problems with it (besides the fact that i jammed an ide cable too hard and broke off one of the contact pins and had to solder it on)


bought a 160gb one for $110 for storage


both work jsut fine. i guess it just depends on what you do with them. there was this IDE controller card that came with the 160g hd that was supposed to make everything run faster... it did, but my mp3s started skipping, so i had to remove it.

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Originally posted by moncster The 40 gig Maxtor has a reputation for failing prematurely.

Please show evidence of this. I'd also like to know *which* 40 gig Maxtor, since they've made at least 3 models in that size.

I've got one in my PC. Still running fine.

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Originally posted by DigiNut Honestly, I've never had a problem with Maxtors, and in the IT field, I've installed them in dozens of other computers that have never had a problem. Could it be that some of you just don't take proper care of your B] Two programs you want to run: spinrite and Maxtor's own drive utility from www.maxtor.com.

i was network admin for 2 years, and my brother was an admin for 8. and every other admin we know hates Maxtors also.

also maxtor wouldnt be in business if every hard drive failed. its just a shockingly high rate. congratulations that yours hasnt failed?

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Originally posted by whiskers well, on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

BIG UP THE FIGHT CLUB CREW!

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Originally posted by Orbax i was network admin for 2 years, and my brother was an admin for 8. and every other admin we know hates Maxtors also.

Congratulations on your IT profession, there are more network admins out there than the corporations can manage to hire, it doesn't prove shit.

Can we keep in mind that your statistics are based on personal experience and also localized... aside from you and a few others on this forum, I've heard very few negative reports about these drives. I'm not normally one to defend corporations, especially if I feel that they've done a shoddy engineering job, but the constant Maxtor-flaming from you guys is getting a little ridiculous.

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whereas yours are uber-generalized i assume. and look up Denali Advanced Integration, it was in the paper for fastest growing tech consulting firm in west coast history. We take boeing jobs and stuff away from Anderson Consulting. I wouldnt say we are "localized" with offices around the country

anyways, i dont really give a shit who believes me, go and buy maxtors if you want.