Re: so what is the deal with maxtor's bad reputation ???
- From: "Beemer Biker" <jstateson@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:36:05 -0600
"Lorenzo Sandini" <lorenzo.sandini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have had many different HDDs in my computers for the last 10 years,
and never suffered any hdd death or loss of data. Maybe I was just lucky.
I haven't been too worried about being at the bleeding edge of access
times and sustained transfer speeds, and I have tried P-ATA RAID0 with
various combinations of drives. I think I have owned maxtors, seagates,
western digitals, IBM, and many other brands, without noticing any
substantial performance difference, in a common office computer computer
setting, in which one machine has slowly become a gaming machine, a
video editing platform, a web and ftp server, etc...
I recently bought a new mobo with nforce4 chipset, and a SATA-2 HDD to
go with it. Again, not driven by a need for absolute need for silence or
performance, I trusted my dealer and bough a Western Digital Caviar (8MB
cache, 250GB). The drive's idle spinning noise was so much louder that I
brought it back and chose something else. The dealer almost laughed at
me when I picked the Maxtor Maxline III, much louder, hotter, slower and
not reliable.
1) access is louder, and idle noise is almost inaudible, as silent as my
other Maxtor 300 GB DiamondMax10 SATA1
2) hotter ? running behind a 12cm fan in a Coolermaster Stacker, I don't
see much difference.
3) Probably in real life I won't see a difference, but in HDTach (FWIW),
I get lower access times, higher burst and sustained read speed in the
maxtor.
4)less reliable ????? Based on statistics ? Items returned by customers
? "No, by reputation" he said. And indeed many people in the internet
seem to think like this.
They made a mistake years ago calling their drives "Big Foot". They were
stuck with a bunch of 5.25 when everyone else was getting 3.5 out the door.
They raised the capacity up slightly maxing it out, and came out with that
big foot name. They also bought out miniscribe, a company that got caught
inflating their inventory by putting bricks in boxes. That has pretty much
stuck with them.
At the company I work for, I would drop by our tech office every friday and
look in the trash and pull out the maxtor. They had a rubber pad under the
pcb that would harden and the pcb would not make good contact with the
pickups of the mechanical part of the drive causing the drive to fail. An
easy fix if you got time to remove the pcb and replace the material.
I have this maxline III now and I am really pleased with it. The machine
is watercooled, with only one fan on the front (12cm, 5V) and a similar
fan on the back. I can barely hear it when I listen to music or work,
and when I play then the loudspeakers well cover the noise. I can only
recommend this drive, but I am ready to hear comments from other users.
Lorenzo
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