Hi Shawn:
No, there is nothing wrong with Maxtor, they are great drives. I would
trust any of my high priority data with them. You'll be safe to go buy
one and put all your most important stuff on it.
Once you get your data on your new maxtor drive, don't bother backing it
up anywhere else, because it will never die or develop bad sectors.
shaun everiss wrote:
Hi all.
I have just found a maxtore drie going cheap at harvy norman.
about 170 bucks for 500gb.
I know there are bad things with these drives but I don't know what.
are they prone to falier I was origionally going to go with a westerndigital
or a sigate, both because I have had a wd arc whos case has died and another
because my friend has a sigate which is real quiet almost non existant.
I need something that will store data, its going to be a secondary backup, ie
the drive will get data put on it and then after every 6 months or so I will
power it on to transfer stuff over.
I hope to replace the case on my primary western digital and run it into the
ground.
I will be a heavy user of either drive though. so they need to last a long
time.
OI don't mind if the case power supply or case controler goe but I want
something that will not easily break with switches, etc and will stand a
reasonable ammount of abuse and ware.
Ok so I am not going to drop it and I will try not to take it away with me to
much if at all, howeverI don't want it to die for no reason just like if I
pick it off the desk and say forget to switch it off or something screwy like
that not that will happen however.
I know the western digital drives will power down when not in use, so something
that will do that or is so quiet that I won't notice it running.
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