2nd Maxtor Dies *Heat Issue*???

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I had a Maxtor 120g that died after 1 year or so, warrantied to Maxtor,
recieved a 200g replacement....great! Now the 200g started making noises,
and running PowerMax gavea message, "this drive is failing"

Error Code DE9B9B7D.....its under warranty, but jeepers, Im gonna have to
switch brands.....
 
Newsreader said:
I had a Maxtor 120g that died after 1 year or so, warrantied to
Maxtor, recieved a 200g replacement....great! Now the 200g started
making noises, and running PowerMax gavea message, "this drive is
failing"
Error Code DE9B9B7D.....its under warranty, but jeepers, Im gonna
have to switch brands.....
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In the past 18 months I've seen a fair number of Maxtor hard drives fail,
some within the first 50 hours of operation. They seem to run hot, even with
a fan blowing over them.

I suggest you look at a Seagate which is quiet, cool, and comes with a 5
year warranty.
 
In the past 18 months I've seen a fair number of Maxtor hard drives fail,
some within the first 50 hours of operation. They seem to run hot, even with
a fan blowing over them.

I suggest you look at a Seagate which is quiet, cool, and comes with a 5
year warranty.
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I've never had anything but trouble from Maxtor drives. I've had a 50%
failure rate in the first few days or out of the box. I've also been
involved in file server development where we have done extensive
qualifications for drives and Maxtor has faired very poorly. Frankly I've
never understood how they manage to stay in business with such unreliable
products. I've had good luck with Seagate and Western Digital.
 
I have been looking at Hitachi Samsung and WD, read review from Toms Harware
guide about the Hitachi being a good performer.....
 
Newsreader said:
I have been looking at Hitachi Samsung and WD, read review from Toms
Harware guide about the Hitachi being a good performer.....
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Hitachi bought out the IBM hard drive division a while ago. After seeing the
Deathstar debacle, I'm not too keen on the idea of Hitachi hard drives.
YMMV
 
I've never had anything but trouble from Maxtor drives. I've had a 50%
failure rate in the first few days or out of the box. I've also been
involved in file server development where we have done extensive
qualifications for drives and Maxtor has faired very poorly. Frankly I've
never understood how they manage to stay in business with such unreliable
products. I've had good luck with Seagate and Western Digital.
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They stay in business because plenty of people and OEMs
haven't had these failure rates. I have about a dozen
Maxtors here and the only significant problem was with their
several gen. old Plus 60 series. I always use actively
cooled HDDs bays and HQ power supplies though, can't
speculate about how they'd fare otherwise.

On the other hand, I'd buy Seagate, then Samsung, at similar
price point over a Maxtor.
 
They stay in business because plenty of people and OEMs
haven't had these failure rates. I have about a dozen
Maxtors here and the only significant problem was with their
several gen. old Plus 60 series. I always use actively
cooled HDDs bays and HQ power supplies though, can't
speculate about how they'd fare otherwise.
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Me too. I must have bought around 20-30 HDs not a whole lot - for me
and people I know the last few years and most were Maxtors. And none
of them failed so far. I often meet people Ive sold my old HDs too
when they end up buying something from me years later. I just met this
guy who bought two of them off me - one 2 years ago and another 1 year
ago which I had used about 1- 1.5 years and they are still running.

The hard disks do get messed up because of all the software garbage I
dump on them and viruses etc but never had a HD crash out of the blue
yet.
 
General Schvantzkoph said:
I've never had anything but trouble from Maxtor drives. I've had a 50%
failure rate in the first few days or out of the box. I've also been
involved in file server development where we have done extensive
qualifications for drives and Maxtor has faired very poorly. Frankly I've
never understood how they manage to stay in business with such unreliable
products.
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Maxtors in general over the last 5 years have been very reliable.
 
kony said:
They stay in business because plenty of people and OEMs
haven't had these failure rates. I have about a dozen
Maxtors here and the only significant problem was with their
several gen. old Plus 60 series. I always use actively
cooled HDDs bays and HQ power supplies though, can't
speculate about how they'd fare otherwise.
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The number one thing other than physical/shock abuse that will kill a HD is
excess heat. A HD must be kept cool enough such that you can hold your hand
on it comfortably for 30seconds.
 
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Ron Reaugh said:
The number one thing other than physical/shock abuse that will kill a HD is
excess heat. A HD must be kept cool enough such that you can hold your hand
on it comfortably for 30seconds.
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That sounds like the number two thing :)
 
My cousin's a mech. eng. and he used to work for a company who makes testing
tools for HDD's. Back then (5 years ago) the list of LEAST R/W ERROR goes
like this:

1. Quantum
2. WD
3. Maxtor
4. IBM
5. Seagate

I've been using Quantum ever since, and after Maxtor bought them, I've been
using the Maxtor fireball and later I think the fireball's line is no longer
available. I am using the Maxtor's DiamondMAX line.

No problems so far and I have never had a single hdd died on me yet since
the 486 days. However I find that my Hitachi/IBM 80GB doesn't like to be
OC'ed. It's the first device acting up when OC fails.
 
Bronney said:
since the 486 days. However I find that my Hitachi/IBM 80GB doesn't
like to be OC'ed. It's the first device acting up when OC fails.
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Hard drives do not like being overclocked. Stray much over 35.5 or 36MHz on
the PCI bus and file corruption will happen.
Recent chipsets lock the PCI and AGP buses.
 
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