Hi Are maxtor still manufacturing HDD ? Lookin for a 3.5" SATA
500GB+
Maybe I'll go Samsung
500GB+
Maybe I'll go Samsung
Maxtor - Still making Hard Disks?
- Thread starter AndyPRK
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EddieM
Hope not, my experience of them was not positive.
I'd always opt Seagate personally.
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EddieM
Things may have changed of course, but when I was working for a bank in the early noughties, we replaced the entire branch and head office estate with new desktops, approx 45k machines, the vast majority of machines that failed were all equipped with Maxtor drives. All the rest were fine, bar the odd failure here and there. Never got to be bottom of it entirely, the the MBR and it's backup somehow got corrupted.
It seems that Seagate took over Maxtor "at some time in the past". A quick Google search would indicate that the Maxtor name is now only used for external (or portable) hard disks. KeithMac says the only HDD he had fail was a Maxtor, well, I have had Western Digital, Hitachi and Seagate IDE drives all fail on me over the years, with capacities from 40 MB (yes, megabytes) to 120 GB.
Yeah I do remember 40Mb HDD
I’m sure I said I would never buy another WD
I’m sure I said I would never buy another WD
Maxtor must have been good or had some high tech if the mighty seagate too them over.
The first IDE hard drive I bought was a Conner 20MB. It cost me £75! The Conner name disappeared into the Seagate conglomerate. Nowadays I use Kingston, SanDisk and Crucial SSD drives at a cost of around one ten-thousandth (per megabyte) of my original hard disk! The first hard drive which failed on me was a WD, and, like AndyPRK, I shunned then until very recently.