Maxtor Ata 133

It's 2:21 in the Morn and it's time to set the record straight....

MAXTOR are @#$%! crap..when I say that I mean the ata 133..I wouldnt swap a warm bucket of piss for these units...3 strikes and your out..thats how many times MAXTOR has had to prove it's worth to me.With the whining hardrives when there too close together and the sudden crashes of HDD,Maxtor have entered the Hall of shityiest HDD on the Market...viva la seagate......

any one with me or am I just whining over nothing...dang jack daniels...:D

i've bought a second-hand Maxtor over 2 years ago and never had a problem. :) Now i have 2. I got the second one free after it started threatening with "immenet failure" but it hasn't died yet and it's handy for extra storage till it does.
It's just the luck of the draw with drives I think.

i must be one of the lucky ones. Got two Maxtor drives in my PC atm. a 30GB and a 60gb. no probs

another reason for me to stick by my trusty WDs

well i have 3 maxtors, a 40 and 2 80's none of which give me grief,m they are full to the brim and fragmented to hell and back, but they still run alright, maybe my p4 piece of crap just cant push em hard enuf?!

anyway, i am quite happy to recommend maxtor as astable drive to anyone, what exactly have your troubles evolved around?

i think i'll move this to the technical part

that's what you always said about your 45gb IBM drive... till it stopped working... even when all the others from the same batch yours came from had died...


but then again that's what I say about WD drives, and I could be proven wrong any day by one of mine falling over...

i still use ibm drives man, my 20Gber has never stopped, neither has any of the 4 we have at work, only drives we've had fail at work are mostly seagates (1 scsi, replaced by quantum, and about 5 or 6 ide drives), 1 Western Digital (10Gb), 3 Fujis (3Gb shite), best-life HDDs we would have at work are the quantums, and we all know who do their stuff now (for those that dont, quantum are owned by maxtor now)

in order (bestest first) i'd rank drive brand-names alone: quantum, maxtor, WD, seagate, fuji - anythin else prolly aint worth the trouble :P

oh yeah and i kept sayin that the IBM was a solid drive, very fast and high-perf, only thing that was a necessity was cooling, for whatever reason u want...

the whole table could turn however as sATA drives emerge, i will be interested to see what design changes will occur for sata drives.

Yeah Serial ATA should be cool, I'll be keeping an eye on that one.

and judging by the hype around it, I think everyone will be :)

I think most of us will eyeing the SATA drives and be thinking "Gee, I wish I could afford one of those...maybe in a year or 2 when the price drops" :P

yes, at the next lan, thats my prediction, u'll all be looking inside my $600 case throught the neat window in the glistening liquid neon light there will be an array of sATA drives with adapters so they can run on the normal ide controller running in all their glory, my computer will be wearinmg a big condom so it will be safe from drooling...

either that or all prices will halve, and your case will be worth $300 and everyone will have one...

..except JT who can't afford anything. :D Sorry, I couldn't help it...

Meany :(