Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y160M0 Review

I have the 6Y160 PO version and this baby rocks… It’s fast and as reliable a Maxtor drive can be. Maxtor rules!

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I am dissapointed by this article/review/advertisment as it “says” that the drive is faster than others tested, but only shows one other drive’s specifications. And that drive is a slower model from the same company that doesn’t even have the same spin speed.

I would have liked to see the data that backs up the claim of this review. Show the drive benchmarks in comparison with other SATA drives.

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The review was well put together, as referenced by the stats, but a good comparion would have been to show the actual numbers against the current leader for maxtor such as the 120Gb Ultra 133 P series DX740 with 8Mb cache ( this is one fast drive, quiet and fairly cool for its performance) With this comaprison a person can correctly compar the Sata benefit of moving up in technology.

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My maxtor drive breaks down after merly 6 months. I do agree with the performance that this drive has offer me through that 6 month. But this is not the first time a maxtor product has failed on me, and now I know that I am not alone when it comes to Diamondmax breaks down.

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I have many problems with it and Windows XP, but with linux it runs very, very nice. I think it’s good choice if you not using WindowsXP.

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It works very good and *very* fast. Throw your old IDE disk away and switch to SATA, you will get much more performance.
By the way, it has nothing to do with Windows XP, I’m running the disk with XP Pro SP2 without any problem.

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I have ran too many drive in my lifetime. I have had this drive in my main machine and trust it beyond reasonable doubt of most other drives. If you like WD, you have no idea what your talking about. I have had this exact drive for way over a year with no problems whatsoever. Many os installs from unix, linux, MS os’s, IBM AIX, etc… I have nothing but maxtors in my main machine (7 to be exact now). I have never came across such a admirable drive company such as maxtor. Ay drive will die if its not taken care of properly, cases that rattle can cause drives to fail just as easy as pounding the desk your machine sits on. But even so, this little 160 of mine has been put threw hell and back and it still chucks the data as if I just purchased it yesterday. Take it from a guy who has owned just about every drive known to man. from RLL, MFM, SCSI, FC-SCSI, etc etc… I have built thousands and thousands of machines, and any family memeber I personally built for allways got a maxtor. no maxtor has come back yet. I have seen them recieve smoke damage, physical damage, water damage plus other misshaps and they still run like a champ. but no drive can take being drop’d 3 inches onto a hard surface. in just 3 inches, you can achieve more than 75 G’s. and if your drive is spinned up at the time of a drop like that.. say goodbye to your precious data. I recommend seagate drives as well, but allways preffer Maxtor. Its funny that seagate just baught out maxtor tho… I wonder what is next on the agenda from them.

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I have had this drive for nearly 3 years and no failure whatsoever. I even accidentally disconnected the four pin connector instead of a case fan once and no data whatsoever or even windows was damaged. a complete disk scan showed 0 bad sectors. a work to you dipsh*ts who say these are breaking on you. I know exactly what is going on. 1. you get virues or other malware that corrupt your windows or registry, and you are to stupid to realize that’s the problem and not the drive. 2. you system locks up and instaed of being smart and giving it time to finish and make sure it’s not fully locked up and you reset it. this corrupts your windows and you think it’s the drive. now i’m sure about half of you are smart enoguh not to do either of these and you just got bum drives but i know and least half of you are just stupid and dont’ know what you are talking about

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I’ve had this drive in my Dell computer for 33 months. The drive has always seemed to be "hot" and I found I absolutely needed to keep the computer in the open rather than in a desk cavity. Only recently have I had some real concerning problems though – that is the drive spins out of control. There will be times I’m on the computer and the drive is hardly noticeable. More often though – the drive spins loud and seems to want to take off the runway. I’ve tested this a little to try and narrow down what is being done on the computer at the time. I’ve found that I can have some or all of the following running: several browsers, be in my photos online, working a Word document, updating web pages or simply playing a game – the drive will often times accelerate, then slow down, then accelerate for no reason at all. I’ve tried turning off the DSL to the house and running the computer – thinking MAYBE something or someone is accessing the computer from outside my location. Same problem! Finally, I’ve started the computer up and run nothing more than what usually starts up (things that came with the computer – I don’t believe in auto-starting programs – that’s just me though) and the problem is still there.

The darn thing is still under warranty, but due to some recent and numerous contacts with Dell’s tech support (they are a bunch of idiots from "fur-eign" countries) I’m not looking forward to having to deal with them about this.

Interestingly enough though – on other computers in my house and computers in my past – I’ve never had one single issue with the NUMEROUS Western Digital drives.

Is it the drive or is it the computer (since this is the only Dell I have ever had (or should I say kept)?)

Just wanted to share the recent problems I’m having with others.

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I bought qty (4) 200G Maxtor drives. Only 1 lives today after 2 years. They all ran hot.

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