Re: a Maxtor story

[DragonK <dragonk@mymail.ro>]

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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