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soulata · Post by **soulata** » Tue May 31, 2005 6:04 am

my 160 GB Maxtor died after 6 months. I took it back to the shop and got a new one. The new one (factory packed) could hardly survive win install (couldn't be formatted, only quick format worked.

I took the whole computer to the shop (scared something else went crazy inthere).

nah

the second maxtor was shite, too.

I've got a third one now, let's hope this one works.

k

soulata · Post by **soulata** » Tue May 31, 2005 6:09 am

BTW, not only Maxtors failed here. WDs and Fujis died, too. Just not so soon.

(On the other hand, I've got two small WDs working for over 5 years without problem)

cptgone · Post by **cptgone** » Tue May 31, 2005 7:27 am

zai wrote:That's why I back up not only once, but twice on 2 different HHDs....

Zai

Still not a solid back up strategy...

You need back ups in different locations, in case someone steals your PC, or your PC is lost in a fire,...

I keep some back up DVDs in a safe space, and use a dedicated partition on a different drive for quick and dirty back ups on top of that.

cptgone · Post by **cptgone** » Tue May 31, 2005 7:32 am

I've been lucky so far... computing since 1995 and never had a broken drive

(all kinds of brands...)

o'malley · Post by **o'malley** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:25 am

Yeah, my 10 gig segate drive with my os and progams, has been making strange noises, and crashing programs lately. I think it's dieing. I have some extra hard drives though, just need to copy the drive befor it dies completely.

DevonB · Post by **DevonB** » Tue May 31, 2005 10:23 am

noizetronic wrote:can't confirm on maxtor drives to go bad. And even when, this can't be a nightmare as big as an original ibm deathstar.

And I have 5 of the Deathstar drives, 60gxp's. I did update the firmware, which was supposed to help. Only one back in February was starting to give me issues. The other 4 are fine still to this day. Point is, even crap that's supposed to have issues can stay alive too. The drive that had issues was in my machine that's up 24x7 for 3 years, and it was transplated from an older machine.

Devon

o'malley · Post by **o'malley** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:03 am

o'malley wrote:Yeah, my 10 gig segate drive with my os and progams, has been making strange noises, and crashing programs lately. I think it's dieing. I have some extra hard drives though, just need to copy the drive befor it dies completely.

Shit!

The drive just crashed. Was able to reboot though. Did a defrag and a disk clean up. I'm going to copy it to another drive tommorow, but I backed up all the files just in case.

That was scary though! luckily I have another computer to finish typing my paper with.

nibbzious · Post by **nibbzious** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:16 am

Hmm... all my Maxtors have seemed to die, back in them early days. All the WD's I replaced them with... oh man. I've had like 4 die in 2 years. . Just thinking about the stuff I lost makes me want to throw up. Oh gods! ZOMG! NOSTALGIA ARHGH@H$h1~~!

I've been buying Seagates to replace my WD's and I haven't had a problem... yet.

speccyteccy · Post by **speccyteccy** » Tue May 31, 2005 12:48 pm

Thieves and fire don't care what brand your hard drive is.

I had to look in my drive's properties to see what make it was - I couldn't remember - turns out it's a Maxtor - but it's given me three years trouble free performance.

I personally have had three drives fail on me - 1 Western Digital, 1 Seagate and 1 IBM (possibly why I then bought a Maxtor).

I now backup weekly.

cron · Post by **cron** » Tue May 31, 2005 1:16 pm

cptgone wrote:I've been lucky so far... computing since 1995 and never had a broken drive
(all kinds of brands...)

I could say precisely that until my (Maxtor) died a few weeks ago. Of the 4 I've had, I probably used that one least (about a year and a half).

Who loves major HDD failure?