My Maxtor Drive

[AND_YOU_ARE]

Well my maxtor is on the verge of biting the dust. I ran speedfan which told me the drive has 0% fitness but 100% performace. Its not looking good. I ordered this as the replacement drive.

I decided to try seagate after everything I have heard about them. My other two drives are samsung, they are doing well considering the use they get.

 

[FoxyLoxy]

how old is your Maxtor?

 

[AND_YOU_ARE]

18 months, still a baby, lol

 

[seh264]

yea...maxtor is teh sux

 

[AND_YOU_ARE]

One thing that might have lead it to an early grave is the fact I do a lot of audio, video editing that involves large files and moving them around. As well as compression and extrasion. It all helps to wear a drive out.

But the samsungs are hanging in there.

 

[neosteve]

The Seagate seems to be very good. I generally like Seagate for its reliability and stable performance. I also liek it because it Seagate drives come with a 5 year Warranty which is cool.

DoesnÂ’t your motherboard support SATA if so get a Seagate 160G SATA instead of IDE is a bit faster and the SATA also supports SATA 2 which is up to 20 percent performance improvement over previous SATA drives.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-148-034&depa=1

Neosteve

 

[AND_YOU_ARE]

My mobo does support, the problem I already have two samsung sata drives already installed.

 

[beedubaya]

It seems like people have nothing but problems with these Maxtor drives. I would think though, that if it was really that bad, then they wouldn't be near as big of a player in the hard drive market.

 

[AND_YOU_ARE]

Maybe their drives cant take the use that some of us serious pc users throuw at them.

 

[neosteve]

IÂ’ve had no problems with my drive what so ever.
A slight reason I think way Maxtor drives fail is the heat they generate which whereÂ’s them down over time is you donÂ’t have a fan to cool them by your drives.

I have a fan in front of all my drives and still my Maxtor drive is quite hot, hotter than all my other drives in my case.

Neosteve