anyway i think maxtor is the best but this is depends on your luck my friend bought maxtor is from china but i bought is from singapore.it is all depends on your luck.

not really......Maxtor HDD famous as "Data Killer". There is a thread discussing about HDD and almost 90% user complaining Maxtor HDD. If you have friends who are PC hardware dealer ask them what HDD giving the most problem........MAXTOR

agree...maxtor hdd really vr not reliable......better not use this maxtor the data killer~

the most scary thing about harddisk is they just died without any symptoms .... i used to have 1 maxtor and 2 western digital and 1 seagate .... they serve me well and still under warranty period ... but i guesss we cant just predict ... they died just overnight ... unrecoverable ... really sad ... all data gone! ... is there any harddisk that can promise will not died without any symptoms for 3 years time? ..... guess not ..... depends on luck ...

Maybe there is but you did not realise it. Such as...it produce noise, "click" sound or sometimes cannot be detected but later on work fine. Those are the symptoms for mine. get another HDD If using PnP/Bt etc cos those software will kill ur HDD softly correct me if im wrong

my friend is working as a technition he also advise me maxtor because wd has electric shortage problem.but it is all depends on luck.

ur is sata or pata?

how come? u keep the receipt?

u using the enclosure or pure external?

all 4 of it just died in the same time?

WD electric shortage? how to know when tat happen? refer to all sata or pata?

I see it from a forum on taiwan ,they have test it so i know.

what forum? can tell me

You may want to check out Warranty Week on the Top 25 Warranty Providers, and you'll notice that Maxtor is in the list. As for Seagate, they are in the Top 50 Warranty Providers instead because of lower warranty claims. It should be noted Seagate ships more drive than Maxtor, however on warranty claims its the other way around though. These figures are mostly for the US/Canada region though.. Sorry, no figures on Western Digital this year YET, but you can checkout the older Warranty Headlines Archive and see..

The figures there are subjective of course. There could be many factors that affect them (such as older warranties due to 3-5 year warranty claims, etc). Just some points to ponder..

On the subject on reliability.. I would say 80% on how you manage and "treat" them (ie. PSU, cooling, mounting, etc) and 20% luck! Nobody's perfect.

Always monitor the S.M.A.R.T status from time to time to avoid data loss.. Do periodic backups as well..

This post has been edited by lex: Dec 16 2005, 12:41 PM

I like WD... very quiet and no probs at all after using it 2 years....

but smart not every time useful,coz my fren sudah kena twice, smart also couldnt inform him in time, hdd become undetected. he only can in front pc.

Wa........die lo........I just bought a MAXTOR 250GB HDD.....Yet here everyone is complaining MAxTOR.....But my WD 200GB is serving me well for one year.

The first day I bought MAXtor, I cant boot up my HDD as slave although I plug everything properly. I thought my windows got problem, so I reinstall, then after that I plugin again and it works. Wasting my time to reinstall my windows.

I hope my MAXTOR HDD dont have any problem..........keep my finger crossed!!!

i also use maxtor HD 40GB (2 years) + 80GB plus 8MB (1 year) till now, but seen ok. actually jsut half confidence on them because the 40GB have ' tak tak' sounds before, after i changed to another pc system and reformat, it seen ok. just worry the 80GB HD harmed after using BT so much.

Been using maxtor for 3 and the half year...no problem..just that it has already operating at the temperature of 61 degree celsius

LEX!!!
how come now only you came in!!!
this is a very good informations...
OMG!!!

in facts, i think now the most reliable hdd was Seagate, why, because they gave 5 years warrenty for the hdd. they are confident with their products like his past compatitor; Quantum. I think i should buy Seagate and try for it....

haha!!!
i hope the next gen of the WD hdd will be improve, as what empire23 said in the past post. WD is going to launch the new tech of hdd...


This post has been edited by victorboy: Dec 17 2005, 01:15 AM

ur "tak tak" sound is because theres bad sector already...I had kill my HDD b4 using it 24/7 for months....if im not mistaken in 3months its dead...haha

Been using a Maxtor 80GB 2MB PATA for slightly less than a year. No problems for now, although I'm still cautious of the problems that may come. At 1st, I was so damn skeptical and reluctant to buy it, but considering that I needed it badly, the price was just right and since it's very difficult to get Seagate here, I just had to do it. The only thing that moved me was the fact (or is it?) that Maxtor bought over Quantum, and that reason alone was why I got a HDD with a potential timebomb attached. I pray to the high heavens that nothing'll happen within another year...

i have 2 pata WD both also no problem n still working
one WD "protage" i think, it quite noisy but no problem since i got it cheap serve me already 3 years
another one is WD cavier silent n works well already using for 2 years
i guess i will stick to WD next time