Re: a Maxtor story

[Ben Potter <bpotter@teamsearchmr.co.uk>]

For me, the average failure rate was around 5 months - however I have 2 
maxtors at home (1 80Gb and 1 60Gb - need to check model) that have been 
running for a couple of years without a single glitch.

It looks (to my highly inexperienced eye) as if maxtor have had a faulty 
batch.

I wouldn't worry about it, unless you start to notice a considerable 
slowdown

Alternatively, try running the smart daemon tools, on checking all of 
mine showed up with a lot of warnings - but my bios hadn't reported them 
(probably my fault)

I now periodically check all hard drives (48 of them) with the smart 
tools (roughly once a month) - it takes a bit of time - but it is better 
than one failing in the middle of the day and a user losing work (and 
screaming at me)

Hope this helps
Ben Potter


DragonK wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I have a Maxtor 6E040L0 40G and it's working perfectly. You guys are  
> getting me worried...what's the medium time until failure? I have it 
> for  almost a year now and never had problems with it.
>
> On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 17:10:30 +0100, Ben Potter  
> <bpotter@teamsearchmr.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> Unfortunately it is not just the 120Gb Maxtor hard drives - over a  
>> period of about 12 months I bought 22 Maxtor hard drives, of these 
>> 14  have now failed. Almost exactly the same problem as markus, In my 
>> case,  extreme slowdown - followed by sudden failure.
>>
>> The majority of these disks were the slimline models (never again!), 
>> but  there was at least one normal(?) sized hard drive. The capacity 
>> ranged  from 30 Gb to 120Gb
>>
>> Needless to say, after replacing the lot with IBM deskstars, I have 
>> not  had a single disk failure (to date) and will not be buying 
>> Maxtor disks  again.
>>
>> Thankfully, I also have a highly paranoid backup system - and did 
>> not  lose any data, and am now running the smart daemon tools on all 
>> the  critical machines.
>>
>> Just my 2 pence
>> Ben Potter
>
>
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