another maxtor dies.....

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Overlag

Overlag

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about a year ago, i had one of my heavy used 160gig DM9 SataI drives fail on me.... sectors went missing, and the drive couldnt read the outa 40-60gig (ie first 100gig was fine). This was soon replaced by maxtors fast turn around on RMA's and i was happy as larry with a new 160gig drive DM9 sataI drive.

fast forward just 4 months, and this too failed, EXACT same issue, almost exact same size of "damage" same noises same everything. This time i really couldnt be botherd, and went on to just run along with my 200gig DM9 sataI drive.

then 3 months ago, i started running out of space, so i had to get another drive. I had a few options

1: WD Raptor 150gig for speed
2: Maxtor 250gig SataII DM10 for storage and average pace
3: Seagate drive for storage but poor pace

I chose the middle line, as i needed more storage, but i still wanted a fastish drive.

Boy i wish i hadnt. This 250gig drive barely has a bit of dust on it, and has just failed, exact same noises, head constantly clicking and not being detected on boot up in some cases... WHAT THE HELL have i done wrong? I keep hearing about Nvidia and Maxtor not mixing, but why is my 200gig seem to be doing ok? (touch wood)

this is really ******* me off!!!!! :mad:
 
tomos said:
never had a maxtor fail on me yet, but my current drives are quite old (last one was an 80gig one). my brand new 500gig drive better not fail tho :eek:
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my first 8 drives was going strong, although a lot of them arnt used anymore. I have a 10 year old maxtor 800mb that still works today, and only has like 10mb bad sectors on it.

its the latest drives, all DM9/DM10 that seem to have the problems... :(


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http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/data-recovery-maxtor-diamondmax-10.htm

this is almost exactly what happens to all my drives... maybe its a simple firmware curruption? Can this be repaired?
 
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HangTime said:
Interesting (I have 4 maxtor drives in this PC).

One of the big problems for me is that we don't really know sales figures for each drive manufacturer, so while it may seem like a certain manufacturer has a high fail rate (Go back 5 years and it was the IBM Deathstar range), it may simply be because more people are buying those drives and hence we hear about them more.

Over the years I've had drives from Quantum (now IBM), Fujitsu (now Maxtor), IBM, WD and Maxtor. The only ones I've never had problems with are WD and Maxtor, but that doesn't necessarily mean I trust them, I've probably just been lucky.

Personally I'm wondering if in a few years time we might see a move away from the current HD system. It's quite old technology when you think about it really, with mechanical limitations and hence mechanical liabilities as well. For example if Flash memory etc is able to scale up and reach high capacity, maybe that technology or an offshoot of it could be used for primary data storage.
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it is true, Maxtor does have quiet a high market share (i think) but so does Seagate and you hardly NEVER hear about those failing! I knew i should have brought one of those!

overall ive lost 300-400gig on maxtors in the past 2 years, and im not a happy bunny :(

and before you say about backups, the 250gig drive i just brought WAS the backupdrive! LOL :( How unlucky :rolleyes:
 
tomos said:
i hope so. i plan to buy an enclosure for my maxtor drive now just in case. should help keep it cooler with the fan in there like with my raptors. hopefully a constant low temp and less vibration should keep it alive :)

worth it for 500gig of data. grr, wish i had bought a WD now
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my maxtors never go over 34c (active cooling)
 
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