Posted: 2/25/2006 9:02:43 AM EDT
| I'm looking at getting a Maxtor 100 or 200 gig harddrive. Anybody heard of any probs with them? |
i have never heard of this crap. do you have a link or something that proves this. BTW i am a reseller of seagate hardrives. i have never heard that. they have a 5 year warranty, what else do you want from them |
My company sells the seagate drives also, and I have never heard of it either. I have not heard one complaint about the seagate external drives. |
Yea Seagate drives are solid drives. Uh BTW… Seagate now owns Maxtor. |
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Thanks for the info guys. I read some online reviews of Maxtor that indicated there were some problems in 2003/2004, but it sounded like they were fixed in the follow-on models. Never heard about Seagate being bitchy, I've got a Seagate internal in another machine that has never given me any probs. |
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I'd rather take a chainsaw to my nutsack than EVER buy a fucking IBM drive again. I had 4 of them - FOUR of them fail in 3 years at home. Even my old 4.3GB Maxtor from like 1995 still runs. IBM makes SHIT. I think you'll be fine with Maxtor, Seagate, or Western Digital. |
That's exactly what mine used to do. They'd do this and fail within minutes. Mine were a bunch 40 giggers. |
It's a 300gb seagate usb/firewire (ST3300801CBRK). It's not windows power saving because it happens when its not even connected to the PC. The drive will make the seek noise and then just spin down after exactly 5 minutes of idle. I have to wait 15 seconds for it to spin up again every time I want to access a file on the drive. It's a really stupid, annoying feature. The one I had to RMA would spin down even if it was in the middle of copying files. Edit: I just did some searching and I think the problem is with the enclosure case's bridgeboard and it's own crappy firmware, not the actual hard drive inside. I've never had a problem with internal seagate drives. |
Sheesh! NOW you tell us? I just bought FOUR new Maxtor's since Newegg had 'em at a god price and I figured with Seagate acquiring them they might actually last a while or at least beyond the warranty period...  I've always preferred Seagat....first one ever: 1984 or so......ST2020 hard drive with the IDE cable running to a Western Digital c0ontoller card...$320 bucks for a whopping 20 Mb of storage..[lmao2] |
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just because im a reseller doesn't mean i get the harddrives cheaper, I might add. Newegg and other places still have killer prices. alot of times motherboards and memory i can get cheaper from newegg than some of our sources. newegg is where i got my last system. (shrug) |