Bye bye Maxtor...

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Well not quite bye-bye/dead yet, but started making a 'grinding' noise at boot-up which, by the way is not very loud. Also system would freeze/lock-up unexpectedly. So decided to take it out immediately!

Its a 160GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 SATA bought in March 2005. Mainly had music, videos & backup of C: on it. Transfered most to a 40GB PATA HD I had spare & the rest onto CD-Rs, DVD±Rs & DVD±RWs.

Only other issue it had is that SpeedFan's S.M.A.R.T. reported that the 'Power Cycle Count' was high & needed to be watched :confused:

Hopefully get one of those 7200.10s on payday :)
 
My maxtor drives, same model and size *touches wood* so far seem to be fine, but will start backing them up I think just in case.

Looking at going back to WD drives, my origial 120 gig 120 JB Special Edition drive is still going strong :)
 
Think 'noise' is coming from DVD Writer, (hopefully) not from the WD HD :(

Though Maxtor's definitely gone, because it keeps on disappearing at boot time (code 075 on mobo below) & in Windows on several occasions :mad:
 
stuartam said:
ive got 4 x 200gb + 4 x 300gb maxtor SATA drivers + 1 x 60gb + 1 x 80gb maxtor PATA running in my server with no problems what so ever :)
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You sir are a madman :p My 80gb maxtor sata died last year, now my 300gb pata Max10 started to make my system crash, took it out, its now fine in an external enclosure, no idea why ! lol, in pc though it caused havoc
 
Currently backing everything up from my old maxtor 250gb onto 4 x 320gb 7200.10's in RAID 5. :)

It's taking a while tho, as I'm doing it over wifi. :eek:
 
I have 2 1.2TB arrays on a 3ware 12 port SATA controller in my server. The first array is 5 300GB WD drives in RAID5. The second has 5 Maxtor 300GB drives in RAID5. These drives run 24/7.

My WD drives have been solid as a rock, not a hiccup or mumble of any sort. I lost count of the amount of times that I lost a maxtor from the array...... 2 failed completely on me and had to be returned, the others just dropped off every few weeks at random, involving much messing around to get them recognised again, thank god for a quality controller that emailed me etc immediatly on detecting a problem. In the end after convincing Maxtor that I knew better, I got a firmware update for the 5 drives and they have been fine ever since 'touchwood' . On top of that I had 2 Maxline III 250 gb drives fail on me in my media center over the space of 6 months. Pretty bad luck on my part tbh.
 
Raid 5 is mandatory with Maxtor, even then you'll probably still lose all of your data, as all 5 drives will die on you.
With good drives you don't need RAID. :D
 
my airbrushed Maxtor's are still going strong but im replacing them come pay day ! i just dread loosing the data from them. but i also don't like fixing things that aint broke :(

also got a maxtor 250GB from the MM that just stores CS:S recordings and video... maybe should replace that too.
 
squiffy said:
With good drives you don't need RAID. :D
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LOL, I need RAID5 as much for the 'get out of jail free' card as the amount of data that I hold. I am having to get a bigger case and a couple more drives soon as I am almost out of space!
 
I have a old 30Gb maxtor drive that I bought when a 30GB drive cost £80!!!

Its still going strong.. and its many years old! I also have a 120GB drive thats about a year old.

I myself have had no problems with maxtor :S
 
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