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Summary: Quiet and inexpensive
Review: Coming off of a catastrophic failure on my Seagate drive I decided to give Maxstor a shot. I just installed the Maxstor drive with a Fresh Windows Xp professional installation, starting everything from scratch. Installation was easy and straightforward. I do not see that this drive runs any hotter than others made by Seagate, WD, etc certainly no hotter than the Seagate Baraccuda drive it replaced.
This is drive is fairly fast, quiet and easy to install, at least if it's a fresh install and not an upgrade of an oldish operating system that doesn't support > 137 Gb partitions. I suspect most issues people are experiencing are related to trying to break the 137 Gb barrier with an old OS.
Price was unbeatable at < $89.99 (less a $30 rebate at ofice depot). Price was good enough to buy two and use the second and an on board daily backup drive.
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Summary: Maxtor drives are crap unless you want to cook on it!
Review: Don't waste your money on Maxtor drives. The're absolute crap. They run so hot it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that the drive won't last. I bought 4 Maxtor drives at the same time and all 4 have died. Only 1 of them was still under warranty and I didn't even bother to get a new drive for it because there drives really are crap and my data is to valuable to risk it. I have western digital drives now and they run much cooler.
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Summary: Fast, quiet and space for a while
Review: Exactly what my computer needs, more space (upgrading from 40GB 7200rpm+2mb), and a performance almost seen with SATA drives.
Definitely a gift for this season !!
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Summary: Just what my computer needed
Review: Got this drive to stuff into my computer so I'd have enough storage space for my new video editing hobby. Installation was a snap, although people with older computers/operating systems might need a separate ATA/133 controller to take advantage of the full capacity/speed of the drive. Once I remembered how to pop the cover off my computer, I had the drive in and my system up in about 15 minutes (with 5 spent removing a CD drive).The included manual covers installation pretty well, and lists requirements for Windows and Mac systems. All the hardware needed for installation is included (screws, IDE ribbon cable), although if you're mounting in a 5 1/4" bay, you'll need a mounting bracket if you don't already have one. An included CD contains installation software and hard drive utilities that let you partition your drive and perform disk to disk copies. The software also lets you create backup copies of the MBR (Master Boot Record) for safe keeping. Formatted capacity is 153GB according to Windows, and took about 45 minutes. Access speed is fast, and the drive is pretty quite. Noise from the heads flicking about is audible, but not distracting.
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Summary: If your drive begins to sing and not work, read this!
Review: I bought this drive a few months ago and I had no problem getting it to work. It performed beautifully, that is until it started to sing a wierd polyphonic tune and stopped working. I couldn't figure out why. I thought I had lot the drive and the valuable data on it forever. Then, I came upon this site: http://www.techimo.com/forum/tid43161/pp20/pn1/index.html. It explained everything and even recommended some "fix-it hints." I liked the drive initially, but I found that Maxtor's online help is horrible. There was no solution addressing this particular problem and I have found tha this problem is not an isolated incident. It's very bad business practice not to address a quality issue when it comes to your product! I managed to "fix" the drive and salvage my precious data and I'm going to send the drive back for a replacement. I hope I don't have another problem with it. If I don't, then I'll let you know that it was a glitch. If I do, then I'll come back and pour out torents of condemnation on the drive and the company. How dare they risk the precious data of personal and business users with a faulty product! I hope that it doesn't come to this. I hope this helps the people who encounter this problem and saves them from a lot of grief I experienced!
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Summary: Too noisy
Review: I bought this hard drive to replace an 80 GB Western Digital Drive. I had no difficulty installing it, and the drive performed fine except for the noise. It is perfectly quiet while idle but very noisy when accessing the drive. I returned it and bought a Seagate drive with comparable specs. The Seagate is whisper quiet.
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Summary: Great HArd Drive at a cheap price.
Review: I found myself into a hotdeal forum, a deal I could not resist. a 160GB maxtor drive with 8MB cache for $90 not rebates to deal with or taxes additional. That sounds really cheap right, well the drive works fine I follow the CD instructions and got it set up in about 30 minutes. BTW I bough two of then just to create a mirror 160GB drive on one of my server at work. Hope you guys look up deals like this online.
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Summary: WinXP not Maxtor friendly
Review: I gave this 1 star because it still isn't working. If it ever does, it may gain more stars. The tech support says they are having problems with WinXP. I installed the setup program, but it won't run at all unless I use the compatibility wizard to set it for Win98 - and then it fails after a few minutes. When I boot from the CD, I want to make the new drive my boot drive, but can't get the files to copy - error message at about the 8% point. Tech support is very friendly, but after several calls they finally admitted to the WinXP file copy problem and suggested I buy Partition Magic or something similar. When that arrives perhaps my luck will change - but I've just discovered that PM specs say it handles only up to 80GB partitions. I had wanted 120 and 40, but may have to settle for less than I had hoped. All in all, not a good experience so far.
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Summary: SUPER DRIVE
Review: I HAVE A NON-STOP NETWORK WITH TEN OF THESE DRIVES FOR ABOUT A YEAR NOW, AND NEVER HAVE I HAD TO FIDDLE WITH THEM. THEY ARE EXELENT DRIVES FOR THERE PRICE. MINE YOU, THAT NON-STOP MEANS THAT THEY ARE ON AND NON-STOP CONDITIONS MEANING ALWAYS SPINING, IF YOU WILL.
I LOVE THIS DRIVES, SO IT SEEMS =), BYE BYE BYE
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Summary: problem drive
Review: I have always thought Maxtor was an excellent hard drive making company. I originally bought this drive in April and was anxious to add extra storage to my PC. The first time I tried to configure the drive using the Maxtor software, the 160GB hard drive wanted to format at 32GB only. On the second try, my computer crashed. My original hard drive with operating system is now a useless drive with no volume and I am unable to access my data. All is lost. I called Maxtor tech service (who should have a higher rating because of their services) and was told the drive and/or required PCI card was no good. I received the new drive 2 days later and returned the defective drive and PCI card to Maxtor. But, I had to wait 3 weeks for a new PCI card, which is needed to install this size drive with my version of Windows. I finally received the PCI card last week and tried again to set up the drive (now as a boot drive since my original drive is shot). The drive seemed to be fine, partitioning and formatting to 160GB with the MaxBlaster software required. After completing all steps, Maxblaster brought me to the last setup screen and crashed again. I played around with connections and software, but the new Maxtor drive was not recognized by the MaxBlaster software or my computer's setup. I called Maxtor again to find that the second drive was considered defective. I am now waiting again for another hard drive to be delivered. Bought in April, it is now mid June and still no hard drive in my computer. Maxtor is no longer on my good hard drive company list.
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