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Ive had 3 of them for over 2.5 years - they run perfectly fine
By: Steve
March 13, 2008 @ 11:24 AM
As said, I have had these 3 drives for a long time, and the machine is more on then off, so they had quite some ‘running’ time!
Ok – it runs more hot than my 2 40GB Maxtor drives, but I invested in a few 120mm fans in my case – and they can now be touched, even after hours and hours of processing…
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Drives fail
By: Mike
March 3, 2008 @ 9:55 AM
I bought qty (4) 200G Maxtor drives. Only 1 lives today after 2 years. They all ran hot.
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Watch Out
By: Mike
January 25, 2008 @ 9:48 AM
The first time I bought this hard drive it lasted for about 8 months, it failed. It had warranty so I sent it back to Maxtor and they sent me another one. This other one lasted me another year. Don’t buy this unless you are planning to use it for only a year. And if you do buy it, make sure you always back up your data CAUSE IT WILL FAIL!
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Spinning out of control
By: Dennis
June 17, 2007 @ 11:15 PM
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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This Drive Runs HOT!!!
By: Steve
June 3, 2007 @ 4:37 PM
This drive runs HOT! Speeds aren’t bad, and hasn’t failed me yet, but I’m reading tons of reviews it will fail. Gonna stick w/ Seagate next time. Did I mention it runs hot?
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Great drive
By: samuel
November 4, 2006 @ 9:37 PM
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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Also Crashed after 1 year
By: Bruce
September 27, 2006 @ 11:42 AM
Mine died after 8 months. Replaced in warranty. I like Western Digital very much. Maxtor drives are no better or worse than the others of similar caliber. This drive is very fast and gets too hot.
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If you don't Maxtor, your a noob
By: JakeTheTec
January 19, 2006 @ 1:55 PM
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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Crashed after exactly one year
By: Joseph
December 16, 2005 @ 1:50 PM
I bought my computer December 23, 2004. Hard drive died today. Less than a year of functioning.
I strongly recommend against Maxtor. I have never had a Maxtor that didn’t fail me. I have never been disappointed with Western Digital.
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Very good
By: shaper
November 29, 2005 @ 4:54 AM
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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great for exactly one year
By: JDN
November 19, 2005 @ 1:44 PM
After one year some bad clusters popped up, then it lost the registry and wouldnt boot properly, then it quit alltogether. It cost me some precious family memories that I hadnt yet backed up. Not happy
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Very nice
By: Sanchez
September 2, 2005 @ 1:16 PM
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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not yet tested
By: charles
April 20, 2005 @ 11:49 AM
i got my new computer 3 weeks ago with a sata 160GB seagate drive… after a week the disk crashed and 3 times a day blue screen appeared (in winxp its quite a lot) so now received maxtor drive but i can already notice much faster speed booting mandrake 10 and winxp and its a lot quieter than seagate….
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Breaks down within 6 month
By: Al
April 15, 2005 @ 1:42 PM
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 had the drive replaced twice
By: Hisham Akl
August 7, 2004 @ 11:49 AM
It is a great preformance drive (if it works). I had to have it replaced twice with in 6 month through it’s warranty services (which is great). If it breaks down again I will never buy Maxtor again. Many new Dell computers come with Maxtor drives as well, I had far too many fail on me.
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Maxtor comparison best to best
By: Admin
December 1, 2003 @ 9:29 AM
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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In reponse to Greg
By: Evan
April 28, 2003 @ 6:12 PM
I agree that they should have reviewed the drive against other SATA drives, but they are correct in the review. If you look at the other SATA drives on the market like Seagates, you will see that the Maxtor is better. So boo to Designtechnica for not showing the benchmark, but yay for giving an accurate review
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Comparison Review?
By: Greg
April 4, 2003 @ 12:28 PM
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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Awsome drive
By: Alex
April 1, 2003 @ 9:22 AM
I have this drive and so far it is the best I have ever owned. It gets extremely hot though, so make sure you have good cooling. I wish it was quieter though, but that may be attributed to the SATA interface.
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super drive..
By: max
April 1, 2003 @ 7:37 AM
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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