Maxtor & Western Digital drives = BAD!!!

ghill0463-hardware1-zoemaghill0463-hardware1-zoema
edited December 2004 in Hardware
Has anyone ever noticed that right after the time that the warranty on HD's from either company goes bad? :confused: I purchased a 200gb Maxtor drive last August. The drive has never been dropped or physically damaged, yet as soon as the system is powered on, it clicks away every few seconds during startup. The about five minutes after it loads XP, it crashed! :mad:

I used to like both Maxtor and Western Digital and hated Seagate, but now I have a change of heart towards Seagate since they now have a 5-year warranty on thier products :D , I think that I will start purchasing their products this week :thumbsup: and never purchase another of the other guys drives again! :shakehead :rarr::mean::rolleyes: :banghead: :thumbsdow :grr: :screwed:

Comments

  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited December 2004
    That's why I refuse to buy any drive that the manufacturer won't warranty their product for at least 3 years. My last drive purchase was Seagate too. :D
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited December 2004
    My dad has had more problems with Seagate drives than any other brand... *shrug* I've got 14 Maxtor DiamondMax 9 (8 160s, 3 80s, 3 60s) and I've had exactly zero problems with them.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited December 2004
    I agree with geeky. And I tend to be ROUGH on drives. They get moved around and installed in a bunch of differant boxs. At times they are running sitting on the floor outside a case with just a cable attached for extended periods etc.. I have had more HD's (all brands) die inside Dell cases for customers in the last 6 months then I have had die that belonged to me in the last 5 years and I have like 6 to 8 ide drives right now. All maxtor.

    Tex
  • ghill0463-hardware1-zoemaghill0463-hardware1-zoema
    edited December 2004
    I just find it problematic that years ago, before Seagate purchased Conner, every HD manufacturer had three year warranties. However, soon after the purchase, everyone went to the one year warranty and that is all IDE/ATA hard drives sem to go south! :wtf:

    It is a shame that my smaller Maxtor drive that I have had for six years still works fine and the 200gb drive is dying already! :shakehead Maybe, Maxtor and others need not to make larger capacity, just more reliable ones! :banghead:

    There is an applicable saying that I have for companies like this: I think that they would fix the problem with a little thought :scratch: - that is if they only had a brain!
    :zombie::rant::doh::crazy: :confused2 :bs:
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited December 2004
    I've had SO many Maxtor drives die on me in the past, and the only WD drives to ever die on me were during the time they used to seal their drives using that aluminum sticker around the diameter of the drives, and they'd get ripped.

    Since they fixed that design flaw, I haven't had a problem with their drives since.
  • JChretienJChretien Vancouver, BC, Canada
    edited December 2004
    I have one of each in my box.. IBM, Maxtor, Seagate and WD. I'll let you know which one dies first.
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited December 2004
    Tex wrote:
    I agree with geeky. And I tend to be ROUGH on drives. They get moved around and installed in a bunch of differant boxs. At times they are running sitting on the floor outside a case with just a cable attached for extended periods etc.. I have had more HD's (all brands) die inside Dell cases for customers in the last 6 months then I have had die that belonged to me in the last 5 years and I have like 6 to 8 ide drives right now. All maxtor.

    Tex

    i do exactly the same thing ive had 4/5 maxtors fail
    and 1/4 westrendigitals fail :p

    the westrendigital that died was old it was a 3gb drive fell down the stairs and wasnt parked :S

    the maxtors that died didnt fall or anything they just broke 1 day when i powered the system on all of them 3 days before the warenty expired :eek:
    1. 20gb drive 2. 30gb drives and 2.40gb drives :P

    my advice if datas imporent to u then get hatchie drives (pardon my spelling)
    if speeds imporent get a westrendigital or maxtor
    ghill0463.hardware1@zoema wrote:
    Has anyone ever noticed that right after the time that the warranty on HD's from either company goes bad? :confused: I purchased a 200gb Maxtor drive last August. The drive has never been dropped or physically damaged, yet as soon as the system is powered on, it clicks away every few seconds during startup. The about five minutes after it loads XP, it crashed! :mad:

    I used to like both Maxtor and Western Digital and hated Seagate, but now I have a change of heart towards Seagate since they now have a 5-year warranty on thier products :D , I think that I will start purchasing their products this week :thumbsup: and never purchase another of the other guys drives again! :shakehead :rarr::mean::rolleyes: :banghead: :thumbsdow :grr: :screwed:

    to fix that put it in the freezer for 30 min and hit it softly wiht the back end of a screw driver (ur harddrives getting stuck in park (make sure to shut it down right every time)
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