OcUK Please stop selling Maxtor HDD's

Monstermunch · 19 Apr 2006 at 22:34

As the title really............

I'm totally fed up with Maxtors, they're crap. I've replaced 13 in the last year now and it's getting to be beyond the joke. Everytime I get a phone call from a friend or family member asbout their PC's not booting etc, I get there and what do I find but a "maxtor" HDD inside the case, either not working at all or creating major problems. :mad:

Rant over!

Monstermunch · 19 Apr 2006 at 22:41

westie17 said:
I aint had any problems with them. But i have seen a lot of people complain about them.

I've never, and I mean ever had a HDD fail on me. I've had bad sectors & clusters etc, and have lost some data in the past from these problems but never total failure....Until Maxtor that is!

Monstermunch · 20 Apr 2006 at 09:46

If that's true, then why are the biggest manufacturer of PC's considering dropping them because of the number of complaints. And also bear in mind that Maxtor came bottom in the recent consumer satisfaction survey regarding HDD's and Hitachi were top.

And before you ask. no I can't find the link. I've seen it and read it but i've been looking all week. But i'm sure smids could point you in the right direction.

Monstermunch · 20 Apr 2006 at 12:02

Rememer out of the 13 only 2 were mine and they're in a coolermaster tonado case with 8x80mm fans. To give you an idea my CPU (2500+ Barton) running at 2.2ghz is idling at 18 deg and up to 30 deg under load. So there is no bad ventilation in my PC.

Of the other 11, 3 have been in Dell's and 4 in Mesh PC's. The others are various others that I can't remember.

As I said previously, I have never had a HDD fail on me or a friend before, but now i've had 13 in 2 years all Maxtors. Make of it what you will!

Monstermunch · 20 Apr 2006 at 16:25

div0 said:
Ok put it this way - take that SAME group (you and your friends) and ask:

"during that same period how many OTHER manufacturers drives could we have had fail?"

For example: If between you and your friends - you all had 20 maxtors and 2 seagates during that 2 year period - then what is the chance that you'll see a maxtor fail in comparison to a seagate?

I'm not saying that anyone should expect to see that many hard drives fail in such a short period of time - BUT the more drives you have belonging to one manufacturer, then the more chance you'll have of seeing one of their drives fail!!

I've had seagate drives in the past and found them to be reliable. On my old P2 I had a 6.4gb seagate cheatah that lsted me 6 years. All that happened to that eventually were a couple of small bad clusters, that I isolated without incident and continued to use the drive!