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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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