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
markus reichelt wrote:
I've had nothing but trouble with Maxtor's Diamond Plus series. A few months ago I bought 3 120Gig drives and set up a linux box which worked like a charm. One day I noticed that a partition located within the 30-40% of cylinders of one drive was giving bad data read results, about 1-2 MB/s[1]. So I ran a full fsck which took a long time but worked out fine. Over time, the other drives showed exactly the same symptoms.
Since areas where bad data read results appeared were spreading I first used the smart daemon tools to check if the drives were failing. I haven't got the logs anymore but it was suggested to run a full diagnostic. So I did with Maxtor's PowerMAX utility.
In the end no data was lost (due to a paranoid backup strategy) and
all Maxtor drives were replaced by WD ones. For me, buying Maxtor
drives is considered A Bad Thing.
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