Maxtor is dead!

[wayout44]

Originally Posted by anthw27

Wel let me tell you guys somthin.

I have owned roughly 4 maxtor drives in 15 years and well all off them last 4+ years and only gave upo when the electronics did. Electronics are not designed to last forever. so get over it.

Maxtor were a great brand. I never had an issue with em and most of the systems I installed maxtor drives in had little to no problems .

Well either your case/s has/have had good ventilation around the drives or you've just had plain good luck as personally from a repairer's viewpoint they're about as bad as old IBM drives (unless good airflow is provided but then some luck helps there as well).

[Grims]

Originally Posted by anthw27

Wel let me tell you guys somthin.

I have owned roughly 4 maxtor drives in 15 years and well all off them last 4+ years and only gave upo when the electronics did. Electronics are not designed to last forever. so get over it.

Maxtor were a great brand. I never had an issue with em and most of the systems I installed maxtor drives in had little to no problems .

Electronics last a lot longer than mechanical parts for obvious reasons, on average. Which is the main reason Solid state will be standard in the next 5 years or so.

Now that i think about it, I have a couple 15 year old PCs that work fine...except for the mechanical HDD that gave up a decade a go :P

I myself expect a HDD to last alot longer than 4 years, I guess i've been lucky...I haven't had any brand drive fail on me in the last 8 years or so. I still have a 4gb segate layin around somewhere that still works lol.