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[Diablos]

I have a 120GB maxtor internal IDE drive (in an external enclosure, but that's not important).
Anyway.

Today and last week the drive just like... stopped working in the middle of playing an mp3. It turned itself off for a sec (the drive, not the power), spun down, then spun back up again.

So obviously, it's failing. When/if this happened to you, how long did it take?

It's a good thing my 16X DVD-R's came today, I need to back up my music as fast as I possibly can.

 

[ChennehCis]

My 200 gig messed up within a year and ever since it's been sitting on a shelf collecting dust. I really can't recommend Maxtor drives especially after getting 2 (the other a 160) of them, which have both failed within a year =/ At first I only got Maxtor because they often have large rebates (anywhere from 25-30 cents per gig post rebate), but I find it's really not worth it. My other Western Digital OEM and retail Seagate drives are working fine however, so next time you invest in an HD, try waiting for a good deal for one on passwird.com or slickdeals.net

 

[Neo_ZX]

If you're asking to see how much longer you have then it's pretty much pointless since no two drives will be identical. Just don't use your drive at all until you're ready to do the big backup and then do it all in one shot.

Oh and I'd personally recommend Seagate. Quiet and has worked really well for me. I have 6 Barricuda drives and they're all still working after 3+ years.

 

[Hawksley]

I've had four Maxtors fail on me. The oldest of them was two years old. I finally learned my lesson after that. Just... don't get Maxtor!

 

[Diablos]

Heh, actually, this Maxtor has been extremely reliable. I've had it for like two and a half years now. It was once used as my primary hard drive. It stored mp3's, games, windows, everything.

Now it's just for mp3's basically. I think it's starting to fail because, for the time that it has been in it's external enclosure, I've bumped it from the top of my comp onto the floor a couple times. :lol

Oopsie!

I don't trust Maxtor either however. On the spare comp I built last year, I used a Maxtor drive and it started to fail. Had to get another one. Lately it seems like Maxtor has been putting out crap.

But I have had a Maxtor 40gb that has been used for like 5 years total, and it's still alive and kicking.

And they run so damn hot.

 

[Miguel]

 

[Diablos]

Not when you are currently backing everything up to Taiyo Yuden DVD-R.

 

[Azure Dream]

I had one HD completely fail in 2002 (lost about 2 years of data), and after just five months with a new PC this year, my HD (which I didn't know was a Maxtor until that point) just screwed up somehow, momentarily, but enough to damage Windows XP, and in my attempts to fix it, I lost those five months of files. (Ended up having to flash from scratch using a manufacturer's recovery disc.)

This isn't even mentioning the time back a decade or so, when they were one of the few companies that couldn't support Windows 95 well into distribution of it, and when they finally did, their fix required reflashing the HD, and basically losing everything on it unless you backed it up. (And CD burners weren't exactly cheap back then.)

So I really have no regard for Maxtor HDs. I actually felt betrayed when I found out that was what was in my Vaio, I thought it was a different manufacturer.