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Summary: Never again will I buy Maxtor
Review: I had been using Maxtor drives the past 5 or 6 years. Well let me rephrase - was using old Quantum Fireballs before Maxtor bought that company. So decided Maxtor would be my next purchase. I bought a 40 GB drive a while a go - it failed after about a year of use. So then I bought a 120 GB Maxtor drive. That thing died on me after 6 months, destroying a boat load of data that took me months to get bac (some I would never get back).The drive gets too hot, and is fairly noisy. One the other hand, I have recently been using a Hitachi/IBM drive and it has been rock solid. I will never buy another Maxtor drive.
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Summary: Great expansion option for Laptops!
Review: I have been using Maxtor external hard drives for just over a year now and have made recommendations to family and colleagues which have resulted in them buying many of them as well. So with experience with close to a dozen hard drives, we have not had any problems and have nothing but praise for the drives. First off, with internal hard drive prices for laptops so expensive and so difficult to install, external hard drives that use firewire (IEEE1394) are a great option. These hard drives use both firewire and USB, so you can take the information and hot swap it among multiple computer (like a thumb drive) or keep it plugged in to a single computer for use a secondary hard drive. I have found virtually no speed difference between accessing files on the external hard drive versus the internal. The automatic backup feature, makes the hard drive all that much more useful. It comes bundled with Dantz Retrospect Express program which is an easy-to-use option for automatically backing up just what you want with a touch of a button. I backup often, usually just punching the button as I go meet to clients. It usually finishes the automated process by the time I return. Because backing up is so easy to do, when I did lose the hard drive on one of my laptops, I barely missed a beat after I got it replaced, simply restoring the drive image to make my new laptop look just like my old one. I highly recommend Maxtor external hard drives.
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Summary: Most noicy Hard Drive
Review: I have bought a Maxtor 120gb HD with 8mb cache and 7,200 rpm, and I must say it was biggest mistake. The drive seems to work fine, exept for the loud annoying noice it makes, I don't understand how they can write on the box "new improved motor" when the new one makes even more noice. Though I have worked with their 40gigers and those I'm actually impressed with to be quiet. But don't trust their HDs with over 100gb as they be makin worse noice in ur case.
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Summary: So far, so good
Review: I installed the drive yesterday, it was easy and everything went well. Unlike other reviewers, I didn't have any problems with the installation software on an XP Pro system and the drive is quiet. I was pleased to see that it came with four screws and the ribbon. My only complaint is that the directions that came with the drive were overly complex. Having installed hard drives before, I got only the information that I required from them and ignored the rest. As for a drive failure (another reviewers complaint), time will tell.
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Summary: One of the tops in Hard Drives
Review: I like the drive's specs and cost per Gig-Byte. The drive sounds like a geiger counter and can be disurbing at times. I have lost two Maxtor drives over time (13 years) and one WD. I just replaced an 80GB Maxtor with a 120GB Maxtor DiamondMax disk drive. Then due to the noise and need for a backup, I replaced it with a 120GB Seagate Barracuda (much more quiet). The Maxtor's are great drives. I don't know why they are so noisey. Both the Maxtor and the Seagate use the same motors. It might be the Seagate has internal noise shields that the Maxtor doesn't, dono. If so, the heat dissapation in the Seagate would be lessened. Heat is the killer of electronics. Both come with a one year warranty. Seagate has a "for the lifetime of the drive helpline" to call if needed. Maxtor's are great drives and one shouldn't worry about purchasing it. BTW: all disk drives are on their way out as technolgy advances. Can't wait.. It's a serious weak link in the computer industry since it's a high speed mechanical moving device. Just a comment.. The drive industry has made miraculous advances. Star leaping advances which all those who use a computer should be very thankful for.
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Summary: Easy Installation
Review: I own a small computer repair shop. We've done a number of harddrive upgrades for our customers. We've used both the Maxtor and western digital. 9times out of 10, the western digital increase performance, the Maxtor doesn't really give you any good performance gains, its a good drive, but if your looking to speed up your system, espeically at boot up, the western digital is going to work better for you.
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Summary: Works just fine.
Review: I use win XP.
No problem in installation.
No problem recognizing the volume.
I really have no complaint about it, works just like it should. Use it mainly for backup and movie storage, so don't really care about how fast it is, but of course I try to go with 8mb and ATA133. $2/1GB would be a good price for this. Refered to amazon by WhoSave coom.
Recommendation: get a external HD enclosure for your old hard drive, don't toss it out, just use it as a USB drive.
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Summary: Buying the best is a smart move
Review: I've never been disappointed in Maxtor quality or custermer service.
In my oppinion not to buy Maxtor hard drives would be a foolhardy mistake................
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Summary: Great Hard Drive. Best Value Sweet Spot on the Market Today
Review: If you can find one of these for [a good price] per GB, snap it up. I'm running a Dell with Windows XP and adding this drive was a snap with Maxtor's setup disc. Comes with everything you need. Runs fast enough for video editing, and very quiet, too. I've added Maxtor drives to 4 different PCs and never had a moment's problem.
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Summary: Decent HD
Review: It's a decent hard drive for a great bargain usually. One of the complaints I have is the noise, since it can get loud and rather annoying if you do not want to be disturbed.
One of the fixes for the noise is apparently the AMSET utility (search for it on the Maxtor website) which lets you toggle the noise level (at the price of search speed).
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