maxtor is the king of rma, lot failure.

My 80GB maxtor backup drive still going strong after 3 years, guess I'm one of the lucky ones.

bet u seldom use it & seldom do scandisk too,right?

Oh... alright, thanks...

Hmm, as for hard disk brand, I'm currently using Maxtor 80G, but its very noise. Lots of clicking noise when using. Also hear alot of bad experience about maxtor

so thts why i'm considering either Seagate or WD

Ure in luck. I just installed a 150Gb Raptor in my system n ran sum benchmarks to try out the difference. Here's the results using HD Tach.


WD Caviar 80Gb

Burst Speed- 94.0 MB/s
Average Speed- 50.7 MB/s



WD Raptor 150Gb

Burst Speed- 135.1 MB/s
Average Speed- 77.8 MB/s


That's quite a significant increase in speeds I reckon. I was really worried bout the noise a Raptor makes. I've read so many ppl complaining bout the Raptor being really loud. Well, those claims r unfounded IMHO. It's actually quite ok when compared to my 80Gb Caviar. It's almost as silent as the Caviar when spinning. Just that when it starts skipping then u'll hear the krek krek for a fraction of a second. Other than that, noise is not an issue with the Raptor.

I'm in the process of Ghosting my 80Gb into the Raptor 150 now so I haven't tried games loading which is my main reason for buying the Raptor. As soon as the Ghosting is done, I'm gonna try Battlefield 2, the mother of all extremely slooooooooooow loading games.

The running temperature is also really good. Speedfan shows that the Raptor 150 is actually cooler than the Caviar. I'm Ghosting right now so both HDDs r under load, the Caviar is 56C n the Raptor is only 47C. That's really weird. I thought the Raptor wud be a lot hotter.

Overall, I'd say it's worth every penny. Faster, cooler n not noisy as sum wud portray it to be.

It was once my primary boot drive and I am running my pc 24/7 since years ago. 80GB is getting smaller for me, that's why it became my backup drive

LOL my maxtor 80GB oso still running.Suprisingly,it has proved to be pretty durable.Once my PC fell down(not from high position lar) and the Maxtor suprisingly still running well.Well,i'm not sure about the long-lasting-ness,coz i only bought my rig last year,but so far so good.Like blaxez,i think i'm one of the luck owners.Heard LOTS N LOTS of bad things and cursing on Maxtor haha.Hopefully my Maxtor will last for a few years more

Yea, it is my 1st and last maxtor as now maxtor is gone

got any other who have hitachi that have this kind of problem too? If have, please share your experience here...I think many want to know about it since now many people want to purchase hitachi hd de...

victorboy, could it be it is because it is manufactured in China cause the problem? do you having any other problem other than lagging for that hd?
emmm...when you oving file, how big is the file? very big size?...

ask him disable his av first.

Hitachi runs rather fast for me, not to mention it has solid build-quality But for daily usage I can't really tell the speed difference between all of my HDDs, to be precise Hitachi versus WD

I had good and bad Maxtors. The one that came in my Dell is very reliable, cool, quiet and fast, a rare Maxtor

super macgyver, your avatar is so cute

This post has been edited by Dreamworks: Oct 8 2006, 11:03 PM

but i really bored with maxtor alwiz need to scan for bad sector.

my last maxtor serve me for 5 years b4 it die with my data inside.

u never try to backup b4 it strike?

you wouldn't know when it gonna strike

so, better keep away from Maxtor...

Maxtor...

Don't know why got double post...before didn't see de...

This post has been edited by Kataro: Oct 10 2006, 10:34 PM

my semi retired maxtor HDD still working, 24x7 few years previously.

tat mean u need to backup ur data regulary, tat was wat i mean in the first place, dude.

Testing on?

Planning to go for Seagate.