On 16 Jan 2006, at 22:23, julian o'connor wrote:
Just a quick word about my excellent experiences with Maxtor
desktop hard disks.
Over the last few years I've used several Maxtor desktop drives
which have been
used in various machines run 24/7, rarely and under 'normal' use
(daily on/off
stuff).
Running 24/7 is probably better for the drives in the medium term
actually. They tend to dislike being started and stopped frequently.
Also the constant heating and cooling of running and stopping every
day, especially if the building gets cold at night, will doubtless
not help longevity.
Usually under long term use the heat gets to them in the end,
especially the faster spindle speed units. That can take years in a
well ventilated room though.
I guess, like most of Maxtor's satisfied customers you are lucky and
have avoided the bad batches. A good Maxtor drive will go on and on.
A bad one will last a year tops. It's not the good drives I don't
like it's the inconsistency of their QA.
They have been low/mid spec drives of 40-80GB. So far they have
been very
reliable. Here's hoping they continue to do so!
I have a 40GB Maxtor I have had for a long time. It's a run-of-the-
mill DiamondMax Plus 8 drive. It's been very reliable (touches yet
more wood). It even survived postage from Texas!
No personal experience of their laptop models but
AFAIK Maxtor never made laptop drives. Never seen one. Could be
wrong. Dunno. I didn't think they did at any rate.
I would at least consider them innocent until proven guilty.
Unfortunately I've caught them on the wrong side of bad a few times.
Non of them my drives (thank god!!), all friends, contacts, or
reviewers. Early death of chronic syndromes like head smashing or
nasty grinding noises, or just refusal to spin up. Others surface
error themselves into oblivion. A good number of 20-40GB units went
south in PowerMac G4s back in 2000/2001 era. Apple had no luck at
that time with drives! Sizes were going up faster than companies
could cope with I think.
The most recent fiasco was the batches of OneTouch (version 1) drives
that died outright after about 2 weeks to 3 months occasional use.
That lead to a design change of the enclosures ands the drives used
in them, but by then it was too late.
Excuse me if I seem to be banging on about this too much!!
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