Warning - Maxtor 120GB 160GB drives are unreliable

I advise all of you with maxtor 120GB or 160GB drives to immediatly
backup your data and buy new drives from other companies.

In the last 9 months I had two new maxtor drives fail without warning.
The same system has drives from other companies which work pefectly.
The money and data loss was much more that buying a new drive.

Also their RMA system and costumer support are really bad.

Hod

Yep, maxtors are ****e and I would steer clear of them too. We had a
laptop drive go wrong recently and a desktop drive, and they were both
maxtors.

Dean




hodw wrote:
I advise all of you with maxtor 120GB or 160GB drives to immediatly
backup your data and buy new drives from other companies.

In the last 9 months I had two new maxtor drives fail without warning.
The same system has drives from other companies which work pefectly.
The money and data loss was much more that buying a new drive.

Also their RMA system and costumer support are really bad.

Hod

"dean" wrote in message
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Yep, maxtors are ****e and I would steer clear of them too. We had a
laptop drive go wrong recently and a desktop drive, and they were both
maxtors.

Dean




hodw wrote:
I advise all of you with maxtor 120GB or 160GB drives to immediatly
backup your data and buy new drives from other companies.

In the last 9 months I had two new maxtor drives fail without warning.
The same system has drives from other companies which work pefectly.
The money and data loss was much more that buying a new drive.

Also their RMA system and costumer support are really bad.

Hod


so that's 4 out of how many hundred thousand............I run 4 Maxtor's 2 x
5 years and 2 x 2 years.

I am sure the other manufacturers have their problems.............

I too have had a Maxtor 160GB fail recently.

--
Kenny Cargill

"Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs."

"Lez Pawl" wrote in message
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"dean" wrote in message
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Yep, maxtors are ****e and I would steer clear of them too. We had a
laptop drive go wrong recently and a desktop drive, and they were both
maxtors.

Dean




hodw wrote:
I advise all of you with maxtor 120GB or 160GB drives to immediatly
backup your data and buy new drives from other companies.

In the last 9 months I had two new maxtor drives fail without warning.
The same system has drives from other companies which work pefectly.
The money and data loss was much more that buying a new drive.

Also their RMA system and costumer support are really bad.

Hod


so that's 4 out of how many hundred thousand............I run 4 Maxtor's 2
x 5 years and 2 x 2 years.

I am sure the other manufacturers have their problems.............

My experience with their RMA system and costumer support is extremely well.;
but how can we judge based on two votes ??
pedro

"Kenny" schreef in bericht
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I too have had a Maxtor 160GB fail recently.

--
Kenny Cargill

"Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs."

"Lez Pawl" wrote in message
...

"dean" wrote in message
oups.com...
Yep, maxtors are ****e and I would steer clear of them too. We had a
laptop drive go wrong recently and a desktop drive, and they were both
maxtors.

Dean




hodw wrote:
I advise all of you with maxtor 120GB or 160GB drives to immediatly
backup your data and buy new drives from other companies.

In the last 9 months I had two new maxtor drives fail without warning.
The same system has drives from other companies which work pefectly.
The money and data loss was much more that buying a new drive.

Also their RMA system and costumer support are really bad.

Hod


so that's 4 out of how many hundred thousand............I run 4 Maxtor's
2 x 5 years and 2 x 2 years.

I am sure the other manufacturers have their problems.............

There's some evidence that it was the high warranty failure
rate that send Maxtor bust and got them taken over by Seagate.

Kenny wrote:
I too have had a Maxtor 160GB fail recently.


"Lez Pawl" wrote in message
...

"dean" wrote in message
oups.com...
Yep, maxtors are ****e and I would steer clear of them too. We had a
laptop drive go wrong recently and a desktop drive, and they were
both maxtors.

Dean




hodw wrote:
I advise all of you with maxtor 120GB or 160GB drives to immediatly
backup your data and buy new drives from other companies.

In the last 9 months I had two new maxtor drives fail without
warning. The same system has drives from other companies which
work pefectly. The money and data loss was much more that buying a
new drive. Also their RMA system and costumer support are really bad.

Hod


so that's 4 out of how many hundred thousand............I run 4
Maxtor's 2 x 5 years and 2 x 2 years.

I am sure the other manufacturers have their problems.............

The only two HD's I ever had fail were Maxtor's. I will never buy one
again. Always good results from Western Digital.

Joel


hodw wrote:
I advise all of you with maxtor 120GB or 160GB drives to immediatly
backup your data and buy new drives from other companies.

In the last 9 months I had two new maxtor drives fail without warning.
The same system has drives from other companies which work pefectly.
The money and data loss was much more that buying a new drive.

Also their RMA system and costumer support are really bad.

Hod

WannaKatana wrote:

The only two HD's I ever had fail were Maxtor's. I will never
buy one again. Always good results from Western Digital.

The WD jumper scheme is too silly for me
and I prefer the nice quiet Samsungs instead.

Main downside with Samsungs is that they arent bleeding
edge, so you cant currently buy 500G drives for example.


hodw wrote:
I advise all of you with maxtor 120GB or 160GB drives to immediatly
backup your data and buy new drives from other companies.

In the last 9 months I had two new maxtor drives fail without
warning. The same system has drives from other companies which work
pefectly. The money and data loss was much more that buying a new
drive.

Also their RMA system and costumer support are really bad.

On 20 Jul 2006 11:04:33 -0700, "hodw"
wrote:

I advise all of you with maxtor 120GB or 160GB drives to immediatly
backup your data and buy new drives from other companies.

In the last 9 months I had two new maxtor drives fail without warning.
The same system has drives from other companies which work pefectly.
The money and data loss was much more that buying a new drive.

Also their RMA system and costumer support are really bad.

Hod


You are obviously a troll.

Even if you had a couple Maxtors fail, their RMA system is
as painless as it gets, superior to some of the other major
manufacturers. It is hassle free, easy, fast, and they're
cross ship the replacement. If there were something more
they could do I don't know what it is.

What "customer support" is there? If you need customer
support you have no business fooling with hard drives. You
buy it, install it, use it, and IF it fails, you pull it and
RMA it. They don't argue things like this, and they're not
a data recovery service.

Storagereview.com has the most comprehensive database of
drive failures. Having a random sample of 2 fail is no
evidence of a trend. Recently some people had several
Seagates fail, and I've had others fail too, and I have over
a dozen maxtors with no worse failure rate than any other
brands here.

If you lost data, you need to make backups. The make of
drive has nothing to do with this, if the "data loss was
more than buying a new drive" then you are a fool for not
making backups.

larry moe 'n curly wrote:
Rod Speed wrote:
WannaKatana wrote:

The only two HD's I ever had fail were Maxtor's. I will never
buy one again. Always good results from Western Digital.

The WD jumper scheme is too silly for me
and I prefer the nice quiet Samsungs instead.

Main downside with Samsungs is that they arent bleeding
edge, so you cant currently buy 500G drives for example.

The only Samsungs I tried were 250GB, and all vibrated badly enough to
make the computer case hum.

Mine doesnt.