Re: a Maxtor story

Ben Potter <bpotter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 05 Jun 2004 17:33:18 +0100

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@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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