I bought a Maxtor HD 18 months ago and it set on fire within 6 weeks.
I sent it back to Maxtor in Irleland, and sent me back a refurbished HD.
This lasted 8 months then Started clicking then would not read.
Sent that back and another HD was sent to me Refurbished.
And yet again the 3rd one has just started playing up on me.
It costs £6.00 each time to send these back under warrenty.
All my other HD are Seagate and never had any problems.
My other computer has 2 Maxtor HD and no problems, But not SATA is the SATA Maxtor HD BAD or ALL the same?
Let me know if you have had any problems with MAXTOR HD's
And is there anything i can do to claim all my money back?
2006-08-19 03:08:18 · 11 answers · asked by claire1731manchester 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I have tried to phone maxtor, but its automated calls.
I do not have the reciept from 18 months
2006-08-19 03:11:23 · update #1
I personally have only had 3 hard drives go bad on me and ALL 3 WERE MAXTOR!!!!
99.9999999% of anyone I know or who knows someone with a bad hard drve have all been MAXTOR!
I wouldn't accept a MAXTOR hard drive if someone GAVE it to me!
2006-08-19 03:33:19 · answer #1 · answered by mrresearchman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My Maxtor SATA drive is still going well, although I think I'll buy Seagate next time I want a new HD. I'd suggest you stick with Seagate as a recent round-up in PC Format rated their HD the best.
2006-08-19 03:18:35 · answer #2 · answered by Gavin T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have 2 SATA Drives. One of which is Maxtor. I've not had any problems with either. Had them for 6 months now and they both seem to be working fine.
Are you using them in an Array format? I've heard of people having problems when used in various RAIDx forms.
I have a Maxtor IDE drive which has just crashed however, whilst I was watching a DVD. Power supply failed and now the drive is corrupt. Grr!
2006-08-19 03:19:36 · answer #3 · answered by Bongo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like you I see a lot of dead and dying hard drives. I agree with you about maxtor at the bottom. I haven't really seen much difference between SD & Seagate, though. there doesn't seem to a particularly high rate of failure for either, but I'd say around 3-4 years. Like you I haven't seen many Samsung drives either good or bad. I also haven't see man Hitachi drives, but I haven't touched them since IBM sold their HD division to them. I got burned on literally HUNDREDS of the IBM drives that wouldn't last 2 years on ANY of them... When I come across the occasional surviving IBM hard drive in a system. It was so bad that when those IBM drives started dying, I advised the customer that it wasn't a matter of if, but simply WHEN the drive WAS going to die. IBM lost a huge class-action law suit over their hard drives. Soooo much time lost, soooo much data lost, I just can't fathom buying a drive that might even *possibly* be based on something that came from IBM's 20,40,60,80 gig deskstar line. I haven't really seen much difference between SATA / IDE... it's just that IDE's are older, so more likely to see one having problems now. The one exception is the WD 10,000 rpm RAPTOR SATA drives... I haven't see one of those fail yet, and I've personally have 3 in my own home system, and have probably about 20 or so out in SMB server service, mostly under linux, but with a couple of Win 2003 servers. (Always in a RAID configuration, but still I haven't had any fail yet, and many of those are getting aged.) SCSI drives almost always seem to get well into their 4's and 5's before giving significant problems, the one exception was 1 customer who kept loosing IBM SCSI's many years ago... We had 2 servers in RAID5 with 6 drives in each array, and it seemed like we were replacing a drive every 3 months... We just kept a couple on hand for the inevitable.
2016-03-26 21:48:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually every HD have error just only happen if the human making some error but I also feel sad that you have this type of problem because everyone don't like this want situation.However compare seagate and SATA both of them is good but I think the reseller sell the product is already have the problem so you can brought this thing go to the court for claiming.Your also can go to the government for complaining about the product.
2006-08-19 03:46:08 · answer #5 · answered by johnlee871231 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well technically Maxtors are Seagates now since Seagate acquired Maxtor, but I would stick with the actual Seagate lines they are the best in my opinion.
2006-08-19 03:15:31 · answer #6 · answered by Kevin S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Had exactly the same experience - clicking, then drive disconnects, then drive not found. It also caused my PC not to boot - even though Windows was booting from a regular drive.
Gave the disk to a data recovery expert and he said the drive was actually fine, all my data was still on it, and he advised me to check the cables.
Changed the SATA cable (about three quid) and it booted up and worked fine - for a few weeks. The disk has just failed again - exactly the same - so I've disconnected it and I'm not going to use it anymore.
2006-08-19 06:13:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think the industry has jumped ahead of itself with sata, all the techie jargon but no support. bring it back to the shop where you bought it and tell them straight the friggin thing doesnt work i want my money back. i've a maxtor 60gig ata no probs yet. sata has'nt been means tested enough by all the manufactuers for expert support and maintenance
2006-08-19 03:27:20 · answer #8 · answered by nuclear farter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a maxtor HD - and it wasnt too bad though i dropped it and it bust!
2006-08-19 03:14:17 · answer #9 · answered by Ruthie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very Sad, Use Samsung And Happy roblem Taht
2006-08-19 03:17:29 · answer #10 · answered by gaurng 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋