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Maxtor 6Y200M0 200GB Review

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  1. Jeremy H. •  June 14, 2004
    Rating: 4.5/5

    I have had this drive for about 3 weeks, and so far it’s been amazing. It’s extremely fast. No complaints.

    Rating: 9 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  2. Martijn •  August 13, 2004
    Rating: 3.5/5

    Before I installed this drive I had a Samsung SP1614C 160GB drive. Because I could sell this one for a good price, I wanted to buy a larger drive and the store didn’t have Samsung drive larger then 160, so I bought the Maxtor. It is a silent drive, as long as you don’t USE it! It makes an annoing sound when it reads/writes, compared to the Samsung… I want my good old silent drive back! But for the rest I have to say I believe it’s a good, reliable drive, without a doubt..

    Rating: 7 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  3. ED F •  December 29, 2004
    Rating: 1/5

    after less than the one year warranty, the big max is gone and only will come up with a “restore” notation.

    Rating: 2 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  4. Eric Copie •  January 12, 2005
    Rating: 0.5/5

    I have 2 Maxtor 6MY200M0 harddisk installed with mirroring. One of the disk was broken upon delivery. I received an new one. My supplier told me that a lot of these disks will break down within 6 months. I have a lot of trouble with large files: They are getting corrupt somehow. I have also a IBM-harddisk and that one doesnot have these troubles. I am completely disappointed by these harddisks.

    Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  5. troubled •  April 1, 2005
    Rating: 2.5/5

    I have the 200GB Maxtor for 3 months now no problem till a few days ago. half of my music mp3 collection was missing. Decided to reboot and was prompt with a startup screnn that was deleting “orphan files” turned out the whole drive was “wiped out”. Some one told me that it could be the drive. If something like this happens then you dont care how cheap, fast, quiet (which is not) the thing is. You will lose all your data and that can not be replaced..

    Rating: 5 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  6. •  April 10, 2005
    Rating: 0.5/5

    i had the first of the 2 of these for 4 months… then it literally blow up, and started to smoke…. hence i got a new 1, that one was dead out of the box, so i sent it back to get a third, whihc worked for 5 days before it too became unreadable. Maxtor needs to get its act together. btw i had to pay a total of $100 usd in order to meet all their shipping constraints for the 3 times i sent them back.

    Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  7. Kendo •  April 16, 2005
    Rating: 1/5

    Brand new system, within days this puppy threw its hand in. Fortunately my OEM retailer was on hand and replaced it under warranty, no fuss (thanx pc warehouse Inverness). New drive installed – guess what, a couple of days on, it got naughty again!! Tickin’an’a'clickin away – needs to audition playing scratcha in a House band.Maybe I can’t expect anything more from a clockwork toy!!

    Rating: 2 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  8. zc •  July 18, 2005
    Rating: 0.5/5

    for the 1st 3 months , silent and fast and then the problems began…this thing is noisy and slow even after formatting etc… , constant whirring ….even when not accessing drive…., got it replaced ….and same problem again after 1 month…now my warranty has expired …really bad drive…!!!

    Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  9. Alex •  February 6, 2006
    Rating: 0.5/5

    This is the worse drive ever:
    A month ago the Istrted getting S.M.A.R.T. messages about bad sectors and it jumped from 9MB to 33MB within a week. I got the replacement drive from maxtror and couldn’t even format it!

    Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  10. JD •  January 15, 2007
    Rating: 2/5

    I’ve had 2 replaced already.

    Rating: 4 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  11. Peder •  January 22, 2007
    Rating: 4/5

    I’ve been using this hard drive for over two years in my computer. I have not had ANY problems with it. I would highly recommend it.

    Rating: 8 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  12. Giovanni Micera •  September 10, 2007
    Rating: 0.5/5

    Maxtor 6y200m0 was the worst hard disk I’ve ever experienced before! It crashed after few months irreversibly. I can’t understand the apology written by digitaltrends on it.

    Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  13. Dave P. •  February 29, 2008
    Rating: 3.5/5

    Worked well for 4 years — in a system that lost several main power supplies — not sure why the computer power supplies chronically fail(ed) — in the Phoenix area — I hear plenty of power surges??? I would suspect this had an impact on this drive. The drive now only spins — completely unrecognized.

    Rating: 7 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

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