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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -29/+179its a maxtor, save your $$$
- AkatsukiNoTobi, on 10/12/2007, -6/+110Don't get a $129.99 Maxtor HDD when you can get a $129.99 Western Digital HDD.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136073
And here is a Seagate Barracuda 500GB for $149.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148108 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+64There's no way I'm putting my pr0n collection on a Maxtor. Too valuable.
- alevel27mage, on 10/12/2007, -10/+51@moofree
Are you kidding? WD, in my book, is tied with Seagate in the best consumer drives available. I have both a 250gig Seagate and a 74gig Raptor - both are awesome drives. I don't know what happened to you that you'd say WD sucks, but you're against the vast majority. - HAKdragon, on 10/12/2007, -6/+38"omg, brand x is *****, buy brand y. "
"No you dolt, both x and y are crap, but I've never had brand z fail on me." - LiveFastDieOld, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25I haven't had any problems with my Maxtors, but I seem to be the only one...
- section31, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26I found maxtor to be just as unreliable as any other brand. However, maxtors are normally very loud.
- AstralAutomaton, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Just got a 320GB WD Caviar for $90 off Newegg, whisper quiet, 3.0 gig/s, very nice reviews. That's my recommendation.
In all fairness to Maxtor, I have 2 200GB SATA drives in my box right now that I have been using for a year and a half with no complaints, but I still never recommend Maxtor to other people, I'm a Seagate/WD man. - Sinn3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15they really that poor? that not just a myth?
I don't know I'm just asking. - jrmy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15The quality of drives from different manufacturers varies over the years. Remember the IBM GXsomething fiasco. If I remember correctly there was a WD one years earlier. Things simply change. Maxtor used to make some quality drives. After being bought out and devoted to Seagates low end drive market I would stay away.
On a side note, most peoples preferences are from experience but usually their experience is limited to a very small number of drives. Or they worked in IT and they had a run in with a bad series of drives in a large group of computers purchased at the same time. Then they form a personal bias against this drive due to this one issue. Working in the IT field I have seen a large number of drives die but what brand they are have varied simply due to what the computer manufacture (Apple, Dell mostly) was using at the time. We had many iMacs die with bad Maxtor drives but they all came with maxtor drives...
Okay, to sum up my rant, don't listen to people's opinions of drives on the internet unless they are specific about the model. Reliability across manufacture varies through time and people form personal biases. Just look at some studies and most will show that drive manufacture is usually irrelevant. (Do watch out for super cheap drives from smaller manufacturers due to lower quality control.)
ps - I have had drives from WD, Maxtor, Seagate, IBM, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Apple (Back when they used to brand their own drives, I think the manufacture actually varied.) all die. And the percentage of the ones that failed usually stayed the same. - nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -8/+21This is a good deal, but c'mon, it's not great enough to be front page material. You can get external 500gb drives for $160 everywhere.
- miles01110, on 10/12/2007, -13/+26If you're looking for a $130 paperweight it's a great deal.
- moofree, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I'm just biased against WD now. Sorry.
I've had two WD drives die just over a year after purchase. I've had a few Maxtor drives for a few years with no problems.
I still swear by Seagate. Never had any problems with Seagate drives (yet)
Hard drives failures are all semi-random anyway. Hopefully the Seagate buyout of Maxtor will increase their (perceived) reliability. - benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Buyer beware, in this case you WILL get what you pay for.
- bonyicecream, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I've never had any problems with my 3 maxtors...nor my 2 western digitals....
Just that iPod that went through the wash... >_> - jon314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8umm...
http://digg.com/users/mig35/ - bobcrotch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I dunno I've had 2 maxtor 160 ide drives for.. eh like 3 years now i think? My 40gb WD just died a slow death at the ripe age of almost 6 years.
I prefer seagate for their 5 year warranty and their ultra low noise. - MikeSobe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@AkatsukiNoTobi
Why not get the Perpendicular Recording Seagate for the same price? (Or $10 more without the discount)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148136 $149.99 for 7200.10 ST3500630AS - Tirial, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Wow, apparently hard drive brand is the same religious debate as Mac vs PC and Catholicism vs Protestantism.
- sunimoto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Isn't it fishy that crap like this got onto front page? Maybe somebody DID buy the diggs to get to the top, If anyone wins here, it's the store.
- twofivethreetwo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I also have not had any problems with Maxtor. I have had several and none have died, they aren't loud, and work perfect. I have also used WD and currently have 2 250GB Seagates in my rig and a 300GB external Seagate. I have had great luck with all three, so I just buy the cheapest with the best reviews from newegg.com. So, despite everybody hating Maxtor, I personally have had no problems.
- earthtoandy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9the last maxtor I ever owned failed in less than 6 months in a very well cooled rarely used tower. and i mean catastrophic, i could use it as a beat box.
- Draje, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Bah. I don't care for Maxtors due to past experiences. Newegg has a Western Digital 500gb SATAII for the same price after rebate (139.99 before).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136073 - Verdanic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@section31,
No kidding - the two refurb 160GB Maxtors I have are in perfect working order, but ***** they're loud. The last computer I had that was this loud was a Pentium @333MHz with probably a 20GB HDD. The 40GB WD in my old Dell was silent. That's my only regret thus far though. - epitaphic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+55 yr warranty is not too shabby.
Everyone has different experiences with different makers. I find that Maxtors tend to crash if not cooled properly. But with the capacities we're getting into, no matter what make, you'd be dumb not not back up all your data, even if it's just a simple mirror raid... at $130 why not? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4How much are diggs? can you buy them from the same guys who sell censorship burys?
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Just got a 320GB WD Caviar for $90 off Newegg, whisper quiet, 3.0 gig/s, very nice reviews. That's my recommendation."
I agree. I have one in my case, and it is so much quieter than my friend's Maxtor. Was $95 when I bought it. - hmaugans, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Seagate and Maxtor merged recently didn't they?
Anyway, I'd never trust this hard drive... especially when you can get a WD for the same price. - wmcook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3you can get a 500gb Seagate for only 149.99. I'd rather go with seagate for only a few bucks more...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148108
Plus, I trust newegg much more than that other site. - adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I had a maxtor for about 3 years before it gave out on me, that machine was on almost 24/7 so I really wasn't surprised. However I had 2 seagates that I bought at the same time, and both crashed less then a year after I bought them. But everyone has their own horror/love stories for the equipment they use.
- nnnr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Bought a Maxtor and it died and I got a refurbished one. Bought a WD and it died as well and I got a refurbished one. Bought a Seagate and its been going for 1.5 years now flawlessly. I'll stick with Seagate.
- dasilva333, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3how about 640 Gbs for 160 bucks? thats an extra 140 by buying two 320s for 80 each
- paker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Get Hitachi and get perpendicular!
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/images/pr%20images/Get_Perpendicular.swf - RoboRay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You obviously never owned any of the infamous IBM Deathstar, I mean, Desktar drives. I had four, and they all failed violently within days of each other.
- marsbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3In my personal experience which is about 2000 drives (mainly desktop not server) over 12 years (both work and personal) I've had more failures with WD than with Maxtor. I don't have exact numbers but I'd guess I've had about 40 (2%, pretty low, knock on wood) failures during the planned operational lifetime and I would say about 26 to 28 were WD and 12 to 14 maxtor. My experience with Segate is limited. In my opinion the old IBM drives were the most reliable. Haven't seen one of those in years though. I imagine IBM sold off that division to one of the current manufacturers.
Of course none of this is scientific as I never did a fair test nor do I imply anything this is just my experience. - HsoKinees, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i vote on the "wd sucks" wagon.. i've had 4 WD HDDs over the years. EVERY one i died within 1-2years.. i'm not looking forward to when my 250gig media center hdd dies :( i know hdds die eventually.. not 1-2years?!?! crazy!! >:@
- sexycommando, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4anybody know how samsung drives stack up? thinking about buying one, they are cheap on newegg
- srg13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My last maxtor died on Saturday. Almost lost all 300GB of data. It was two months out of warranty. My other maxtor died at about five months old.
Don't buy from them - In 10 years, I've never had a hard drive die (and I've owned a lot) except for the only maxtors I owned. - chrislee149, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah, sure. Now give me $20 and I'll digg your comment up.
- tigerjk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I've had a Seagate crap out on me a lot sooner than my Maxtor HDDs. Guess it just depends on the user. HOWEVER seeing as my main HDD (Maxtor) has been in use for around 4 years now I am planning on adding an external and transferring all my precious files before it dies.
- SCXtyler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have lost more than 8+ hard drives since 2003 none of which were WD drives and my 1 year, 5 month old hp notebook has eaten through around 5 hard drives (and i know its not something else that's causing the hard drives to fail because every part in this notebook has been replaced 2-6 times) Most of the drives Were segate and Maxtor and i think one samsung, the only hard drive to last more than 1 year was a WD (and one 10+ year old maxtor that sounds like its grinding rocks)...
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I just lost another Toshiba while i was in the middle of writing this comment. :( - gharding, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Me too. I've had probably nearing 10 WD drives and never had a problem.
- NtroP, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think it's important to remember that the plural of "Anecdote" is *not* "Evidence".
- L0t3k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What jrmy said is absolutely correct. This model may or may not have problems, but Manufacturer has almost exactly *****-all to do with the quality of a disk. All your estimations should be based on model specific information from reputable sources. WD, Hitachi, Maxtor, doesn't matter... they all have bad models, bad years and bad batches.
I realize you'd have to take my word for this part, but I've dealt with more HDD's over the past 15 years then most people on digg will in their entire lives, I'm completely vendor neutral, and I've done well to always consider all my options. Just be grateful that we have much better sources of information now then we did a few years ago! - djdiabolo3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love my maxtor drives, i have had to many bad WD's in my life time. The way i always put it WD stands for "Will Die"
- Cherubim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Maxtor make terrible drives. It's either WD or Seagate for reliability.
- ChewyBass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have had problems with all hard drives regardless of the manufacturer. When you run a network with over 500 desktops and 50 servers you are bound to see one fail. For a while Maxtor was the best with the least failure rate and WD was the worst. So bad in fact was WD that we demanded our distributor quit using them in our orders. Now WD is better and Maxtor has sunk. Seagate appears to be where it's at now and as they have stated, Maxtor will stay around for the low end systems. I for one refuse to deal with anything that is low end, unless it is on my wife.
- honestpen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lacie sux.
- immrlizard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, got some love on digg. I typically avoid Maxtor like the plague. I still have a bad taste in my mouth since from the last set of drives that I bought from them. At this price I might have to give it another chance though since it does have a 5 year warranty on it. I have also had numerous problems with every other type of drive at one time or another so maybe they have improved. I guess I will have 5 years to see. OWC does have a complaint in reseller ratings about this drive. It is from Feb though. Maybe you can offer some enlightenment on the subject Larry. I am always looking to add new venders to my list. I just don't want to get mixed up with any companies that don't care. Newegg has never done me wrong. Their customer service has always been top notch. Remember, Digg has a pretty big group of tech users. Good customer relations can really do wonders for a company where bad ones can really hurt.
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