What's happening with Maxtor???

[bauerbrazil]

I'm seeing a lot of people saying they are having problems with D740X HDs here in Brazil.

Their Maxtor's HDs are dying in a short period of time, sometimes just 2 weeks!!!! 25% of the people had problem with this HD, this is too much. And now, I saw one topic saying that Maxtor dropped warranty from 3 to 1 year, this is really strange.

What could be the cause of this excessive failures here in Brazil, too much heat? Bad power supliers? I'm wondering...

 

[MWink]

I bet it has to do with them buying Quantum. I've never seen a working Quantum drive over 1GB. I stopped using Maxtors when they bought Quantum. Maxtor had its day. I have a feeling it will follow IBM. Today is Seagate's day.

 

[unsped]

ive never seen a dead quantum, but i have seen many poor performing quantums.

my tivo destroys maxtor drives, but loves maxtor/ rebaged quantum drives ... not too shocking since it came with a quantum.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Yea. Had two of them raided and one bit the dust. They are quantum HD's by the look of the HD case. Does Maxtor make any of thier own HD's anymore?

 

[The Sauce]

I bet it has to do with them buying Quantum. I've never seen a working Quantum drive over 1GB. I stopped using Maxtors when they bought Quantum. Maxtor had its day. I have a feeling it will follow IBM. Today is Seagate's day.

Yeah, i agree. I got nervous about Maxtor drives when they got Quantum.

 

[blackhawk]

Well I'm still running 4 quantums, a maxtor and an IBM.

I really dont think that any brand has a major fault or performance problem. The older IBM's had a defect but OTW its too easy to blame heat, shock or misuse on the designers.

Just guessing from the little Iknow about Brazil, I'd think that it would probably be a heat issue. Power should be okay as it feeds through a ps unit. Talk to their service dept and try to figure it out.

The warranty period drop was coming as theres not much money in building/selling hard drives as the buyouts are showing. Maxtor and Quantum had excellent customer service and rma policies and that has to cost them.

You'll see WD and Fuj/IBM follow suit soon.

The one 8 gb quantum I returned for a friend after 34 months was replaced with a 30gb newest model!! That kind of service has to hurt the bottom line.

 

[bauerbrazil]

I have a 2.1 Quantum for about 4-5 years, its a slave driver but its still working

Maybe heat is really the problem, but I heard someone saying it looks like his driver was dead, but when he changed to another computer, the driver start to function properly. It works in a computer but don't works in ther, thats why I asked about PSU.

 

[spanky]

seagates all the way

 

[MWink]

BTW something I forgot to mention is that Western Digital changed their warranty policy a few years ago. IIRC only the best WD drives have a 3 year warranty. The low end ones have only a 90 day warranty! :Q

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

No trouble with Maxtor in over 5 years. No trouble with Western Digital or Seagate either. I guess I'm just lucky...

 

[fireflayer]

I bought one, put it in RAID-0, died. Exchanged it, same situation, died.

I guess I'll blame Quantum... I have a 40GB Maxtor in there (don't nkow model number) from about 2 years ago and that's been working nicely.

Once SATA gets all nice I guess my next purchase will be a couple of WDs or maybe Seagate...

 

[dkozloski]

I've got Seagate SCSI drives that have been operating for ten years with no trouble and the performance is still adequate. Maybe the real economy comes with using high end SCSI drives until they won't hit another lick. If the IDE stuff has all turned to throw away junk it might not be as cheap as it might seem. There is an awful lot of used high end SCSI stuf around for good prices that still has a lot of life left in it.

 

[bolsen]

On the contrary, I have always loved Quantum drives. Never had problems. As a matter of fact I am running of a Quantum right now.

I have never liked Maxtor... I stopped buying Quantum when Maxtor bought em.

::the horns louden as the punch line comes closer::

I speculate the lowering of Warranty is a result of Maxtor's crappy drives being assembled in Quantum cases... then having to replace them all the time when they go bad :Q

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: MWink
I bet it has to do with them buying Quantum. I've never seen a working Quantum drive over 1GB. I stopped using Maxtors when they bought Quantum. Maxtor had its day. I have a feeling it will follow IBM. Today is Seagate's day.

Ima give my vote to WD, i think its starting to become there day more and more, Every DAY!

 

[Rainsford]

Maxtor is still the best hard drive company IMHO. I have owned 4 Maxtor drives ranging from 8 to 80 gigs, and all of them have worked with no problems. While this is hardly a huge sample, I have friends who have had problems with Seagate and IBM before, and I've been trouble free.

My thoughts are something to do with a shipment that was exposed to some strange conditions on the way to Brazil (did you buy it there?) or something, because as far as I know, Maxtor is still doing great.

 

[Sid59]

80 7200 Maxtor
120 5400 Maxtor
both ran 24/7 and they are champs. quiet and fast.

I have a Toshiba laptop and the toshiba hard drive was excellent. quiet and for 1 year, i ran it 24/7.

 

[Varun]

I must be the luckiest guy, along with my great wife I have had 0 hard drive problems (knocks on wood)
My best friend had a 30GB Maxtor that just bit it, I've had the same 20GB 7200rpm for at least 3 years in 3 PC's.
Before that we had an Acer (yeah I know, but first PC) and it had a Quantum Bigfoot 6.4GB drive. The Bigfoot was the slowest, loudest hard drive I have ever seen but it is still going strong today.

Right now though I have heard a lot of things great about Seagate, and with the new Maxtor warranty I would likely try and get something else.