Re: so what is the deal with maxtor's bad reputation ???
- From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:12:07 +1100
Beemer Biker <jstateson@xxxxxxxx> wrote
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
Beemer Biker <jstateson@xxxxxxxx> wrote
Lorenzo Sandini <lorenzo.sandini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
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".
That was Quantum, not Maxtor, and that
was just one of Quantum's line of drives.
quantum is one of maxtor's lines, maxtor bought out their disk drive
stuff sometime in 2000. even though the bigfoot predated that
merger, it counts as "good will:"
Irrelevant to whether Maxtor did the Big Foot and the Big Foots
were just ONE of Quantum's lines at the time of the introduction
of the Big Foots. They had 3.5" drives as well as the Big Foots.
They were stuck with a bunch of 5.25 when
everyone else was getting 3.5 out the door.
Wrong, Quantum had 3.5" drives at that time too.
Actually, "Right, Quantum also had 3.5"
Nope, you claim that 'they were stuck with a bunch of
5.25 when everyone else was getting 3.5 out the door'
is just plain wrong. Quantum had the nutty idea that
the 5.25" format had some life left in it, basically
because of the much bigger platters that those involved.
They decided that that was a cost effective approach
for their most cost effective line in the $/GB sense.
but they had to get rid of their 5.25 and hyped the big foot.
Completely wrong. The Big Foots came after
they had stopped shipping 5.25" drives.
The BigFoots were just a weird sideline for Quantum.
They raised the capacity up slightly maxing
it out, and came out with that big foot name.
Utterly mangled.
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.
Mindlessly silly.
but true,
The last sentence isnt. Its just plain wrong. The brick
episode was just a result of miniscribe going bust.
and as I recall, the auditing firm that approved the
"bricks in the diskdrive boxes" had major problems
All this counts as "good will"
No it doesnt and says absolutely NOTHING about what
happened within Maxtor after they bought Miniscribe.
Usually, good will works for you when, for example, you buy
out a medical practive from a retiring physican. You dont care
about his tools, all you want is his customers who think highly
of him. Maxtor needed production and bought it, unfortunatly,
they also got the "good will" like the bricks in disk drive boxes
No they didnt.
and the "big foot".
They didnt get that either, Quantum had stopped
shipping those before Maxtor bought out Quantum.
I own several maxstor's and am happy, no problems.
Irrelevant to your complete mangling of the story above.
I also got some high priced seagate that I have had to update
the firmware as they had problems with the raid controller.
Irrelevant to your complete mangling of the story above.
The maxtor's have mp3 and music and god know what my
kids put on them. The seagates have mission critical stuff.
Irrelevant to your complete mangling of the story above.
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.
That wasnt true of all maxtor drives.
Yes, unfortunatly nowaways, when we throw them out they are really dead.
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.
my 2c about maxtor's bad reputation
I demand a refund.
.
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