Maxtor drives?

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Are they still poo?

Simple question really. I know a few years ago they were considered the bottom end of HDD makes.

I know now they are ownded by Seagate. Reason I ask is Im thinking of putting a RAID 0+1 into my server, and there's some Maxtor drives fairly cheap.
 
Nah they're a lot better now.

Looks like you want drives for a storage/backup array? If the data's important try e.g. the more expensive RE series from WD.
 
I would steer clear, maybe not needed now, but we supplied 100s of these at work and they all pretty much boomeranged back.. never again :(

The 120 and 160 GB drives were as bad as deathstars
 
I have a 250GB Maxtor DiamondMax 21 which has been going fine for a year now, its pretty quick too, 78MB/s average read. I am pretty sure it says Barracuda 7200.10 on it, but it might just say 7200.10 on the back (as in the seagate 7200.10).
 
Not had an issue with any of my Maxtor drives, however I am going through Seagates like a fat kid through chocolate at the moment so I would not buy Maxtor purely because they are owned by Seagate!!!
 
Still have a 15GB Maxtor DiamonMax in a Pentium 200 MMX somewhere. Works fine and has been for the last 8 years or so. May just be lucky, but also have a more modern 160GB Maxtor which has been fine for the last 6 months...

They aren't as bad now as they apparently were.
 
Always swore by Maxtor drives. As I type now got an old Diamondmax 9+ 160Gb in my PC running sweet.

Just done some some work on my sister PC (my old-old PC) and that still has the original Maxtor 80Gb drive in it.

Never had a Maxtor die on me but had a few Seagates in my IT years. Now moving to being a Western Digital man.
 
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