Maxtor Drives

**swamprat** · May 14th, 2003, 07:37 AM

The last 4 Maxtor drives I've received from my distributor have all been DOA. There was 1 20G, and 3 30G drives. All manufactured in March of this year in Singapore according to the label. Called Maxtor, but they have no info on a bad batch, or will not talk about it. Have any of the techs on this board noticed something similar lately?

**NooNoo** · May 14th, 2003, 08:14 AM

Every maxtor I have owned went within the warranty period.

**swamprat** · May 14th, 2003, 09:08 AM

Tried these 4 drives on 2 different machines, all failed the powermax diags with the same error code. We all have our favorites - no offense meant, but I thought 4 in a row was unusual.

**Ya_know** · May 14th, 2003, 09:16 AM

Were all 4 shipped together? If so, there is your constant variable. The entire box may have been dropped.

**swamprat** · May 14th, 2003, 12:24 PM

That's what I was wondering, but 3 on the first shipment, and one by itself. All by Fedex. Maybe warehouse football? Tks for replying.

**QPAVL** · May 19th, 2003, 03:36 PM

Had a new Maxtor 40g hdd , one of the 8 meg buffer , 7200 rpm ,3 YEAR warranty jobs . Within a week , I had 32,000 k bad sectors . This increased to 98,000 in 2 days . Then came the clank clank clank of the heads slamming into the platters . I now have a nice shiny 40g Samsung , and all is wonderfull again Buy another Maxtor ? Not even at gunpoint ; not even at gunpoint with one of my toys ....

**MacGyver** · May 19th, 2003, 04:02 PM

I had a 40G Maxtor 7200RPM on which the bearings were starting to go after only a year of light service. It was making a terrible whine that was giving me a headache. Replaced it with a Seagate Barracuda V 60GB and things are dead silent, and the Maxtor makes a fine paperweight on my desk.

**CeeBee** · May 20th, 2003, 07:24 AM

Why do you think the HDD manufacturers have reduced the warranty from 3 to 1 year?????

**SusieQ** · May 20th, 2003, 08:22 AM

I had a computer built and went through three Maxtor drives before the warranty ran out on any of them. They were all noisy. The first was a 20G and the the others were 40G's. When the third one went, I replaced it with a Western Digital (which was in all of my Dells at school) and, (knock on wood or something) I have had no problem in a little over a year. None of them came in the same shipment or from the same supplier. So, my only conclusion would be it was the maker and I wouldn't buy another Maxtor even if it was free. Every time the drive had to be replaced, so did my data and that takes time.

**Froghead** · May 21st, 2003, 03:24 AM

Here's another "me too" post. Had 4 new 20GB Maxtor's come in all DOA. We've had best luck with WD but even they're not perfect. I offer one guarantee to all my customers and that is the hardrive will fail regardless of who built it. That's why computers have backup capabilities.

**Indiablo** · May 21st, 2003, 05:20 AM

I have had IBM harddrives from the start.. I used to NOT have any problems but when i went up into the 30Gig+ disks the trouble started.. 30Gig's and 45Gig's.. So i went over to Maxtor, i now have 5 80G Maxtor Fluid drives, where of one is in a USB2 casing and they all funktion perfectly.. 2 of them is even running in RAID 0.. Nice.. And they do NOT make noise or get hot.. I had problems with 2 of them once, but i talked with Maxtor about it and they said that it was a calibrational issue. And the Maxtor test program solved it in a jipp..

NEVER had any problems since.. They have been going all day almost a year now i think.. But now i would like to switch them out with 8Meg cache drives..

**confus-ed** · May 21st, 2003, 05:46 AM

... & the bottom line is ... they all make crap sometimes...

... if they made 'em too good, we wouldn't be buying 'new' ones all the time would we ?

**TRICKPLAYER** · May 21st, 2003, 09:47 AM

Well I am giving maxtor my vote, I have 2 x 80 gigs running in raid mirror, and 1 120 gig on my ide channels, I must admit I have had one or 2 go bad, but there warranty dept is good.

Not to impressed with the new 1 year warranty though, is anyone still doing 3 years?

**swamprat** · May 21st, 2003, 10:37 AM

I rma'd these drives, and all the replacements are fine. Must have been dropped in shipment to the distributor

**Garak** · May 27th, 2003, 10:42 AM

ain't used a maxtor in 2 year's but never had a problem with them, although I do have 2 sitting on the bench that were given to me (and i know that persons rep as a "tech" so no wonder why im needing to fix them)

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