I had a faulty Maxtor HD

[D€vIL²]

Well I had came to conclusion fairly recently that it was hard drive that was causing these errors/freezes that seemed to keep getting more and more frequent with every reformat that I had to do because somthing would always go wrong.

This has been confirmed by the most recent reformat by the computer giving me the error: Format failed, your disk may be damaged.....

Anyway, I put a hard drive from my old computer in (which is a seagate: Barracuda), reformatted, and it seems to be fine.

So, I want to say don't get Maxtor HD's, I know somone else whos HD died and it was a Maxtor... he never had problems with any other brand.

 

[Asus]

Also Maxtor warranties are...One year vs Western Digital's 3 year/5year and Seagate's 5 year.

 

[giant384]

maxtor is like the worst brand ever seagate or western digital is the best

 

[WhiteZero]

I have 2 Maxtors that have run for 3+ years. With plenty of filling up, formatting, tons of defrags, and running them almost 24/7.

Did you bother running Maxtors Diagnostic program or SpinRite?

 

[NeptuneUK]

my maxtor hard drive gives me SMART errors. of course i ignore this and turn off SMART disk. ignorance is bliss i guess

 

[ComradeBadger]

maxtor is like the worst brand ever seagate or western digital is the best

Fujitsu and Samsung are the worst actually

 

[furiousV]

I was running 2 80GB S-ATA Hard disks in RAID 0. Started getting clicking, and freezing and reboots. PowerMax testing told me to try and get an RMA . . .and guess what:
One hard drive was just nearly 2 weeks out of warranty.
I called a second time and luckily got an exception RMA

Though about a month later I got a refurbished DiamondMax 9 :S

Overclockers.co.uk simply sent me a DiamondMax 10 - True S-ATA - within days

But I agree with Devil, I'm not going to get a Maxtor any time in the near future. I wish I didn't also purchase a 160GB ATA . . .

 

[[eXp]Grey]

Fujitsu and Samsung are the worst actually

i disagree.
Samsung, Hitachi, Seagate are imho the top HDD producers. First Hitachi.
I have 2 samsung hdd myself, they work fine.

had a few maxtor hdd's also, but only old ones ... still working.

but in fact: EVERY hdd manufacturer has his faulty devices. You cant say this or this is shit, only becouse one series has a higher failure rate.
You have to judge them by the speed, heat and noise and not the failure rate.

 

[furiousV]

and how willing they are to replace a product of theirs that has gone faulty (their warranty service)