ooo. i use my maxtor as secondary. only thing i keep in there are movies and songs. nowadays sometimes too bz to listen to anything.

Max cap. i know is 1terabyte...
its an external storage build up buy 4 HDD using RAID...
u really mean 120terrabyte?? or typo error.. 1.20terabyte???
120tb is impossible maybe...

This post has been edited by yehlai: Sep 14 2006, 09:58 PM

u can take the hitachi as speed very fast.

hitachi hdd is more slimmer than other hdd provider available....
plus, the capacity is a little bit more than others hdd....

not much looking forward of the performance,
the reliability is more important for me!

yeah seagate is reliable. any1 got the link to the worldwide survey that counts % of hdd failure from all manufacturers?

hmm.. i think speed and reliability is important to me. if you get one HDD which got only reliability but speed damn slow sure got disadvantage one. better get got speed and reliability one.

my damp WD Sata 160gb HDD kong (die) in 3 month....
mana boloeh men...

wah... all these posts about maxtor dying make me worried cos i just bought a brand new maxtor sataII 160gb. it says it's manufactured in august in china. am weary about these china mari goods. but my hdd is cool, only around 32-35C. also have an older seagate 40GB 5400rpm which is 38C. i bought a brand new hitachi deskstar 80GB which can hit 40C!

i really hope my drive will last at least its full warranty period.

my bro's three disks all died recently, really weird, all about the same time... seagate 2.5" and samsung and then the maxtor also showing signs of going out.

IMO, all hdds give out, just donno sooner or later... maybe depend on luck also huh? like buying car... just keep fingers crossed we get a good one.

40'C is normal for your Hitachi, mine hovers around that range without any cooling.

davidhomestudio, may I know what is the main usage of your WD HDD? I also have one 160GB and it's quite scarry if it were to die in 3 months, all my data is inside

My WD 250Gb only at 30c...didnt kno hitachi HDs were that hot

But my WD 250GB up to 40C .

u got fan blowing on ur hdd? if got fan can reduce the temps by up to 10'c

today i go to mines to buy a new hardisk.. i go to one shop, but they did'n have seagate hardisk, only got maxtor n hitachi. I said why dun have seagate. N the seller said "seagate not good wooo... banyak losak punye.. maxtor lg bagus..".. omg.. i bet he dont even know that maxtor already under seagate...

sooner or later its gonna comes true. according to San Jose Research Center conducted by Hitachi, they had first raised the density of single disk to 230Gbit/square inch which is equal to 250GB (roughly). since most of the manufacturer today had master the skill of compacting 4~5 disks into a harddisk, therefore perhaps end of next year it would be time for the 1.2TB HDD to be borned.

just love wat you bought . i had indeed heard alot of ppl complaining for thier Maxtor, but u might be the lucky one though. it doesn't mean anything that comes from china sux although most of the time they are my 80GB Sata2 hitachi's temp is around 32~35 in air-con room, 39 in non-aircon room. maybe u need a small fan to blow the heat away. as for the 3 disks knocked out in the same time i think its not something to do with luck but something to do with the motherboard eh. BTW, Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB is the strongest now (compared with the same level HDD by D.I.Y zone)

really. i'll try later and hope can reduce the temps.

samsung is 2.5 too? how the maxtor u been using it how long?

buying a fan blowing for your HDD eh? it migt be interesting as my WD HDD can hit 50C when it come to defragment.

speaking of the fans for hdd...
does it help the SMART errors?

and what is the purpose to adding the hdd fans onto the hdd beside cooling it down?
perhaps, maybe it can say to reduce the chipset burn down?

This post has been edited by victorboy: Sep 17 2006, 01:24 AM

hdd cooler is only bring advantages, if it heat can generate more heat inside ur ring, hw sure lifespan will be shorter mar.

ohhh!!! then i am going to buy the hdd fan for my hdd...