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Summary: STAY AWAY FROM Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 40 GB
Review: Stay away from this hard drive. Lasted less than 10 months. Western Digital apparently is better. I have read many negative reviews about this after I purchased it.
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Summary: High Failure Rate
Review: We purchased about 200 pc's containing these drives and within a few months, we have to replace 1 - 4 a week. This is not a coincidence that they are all Maxtor drives. Dell is replacing them with Seagate and Western Digital.
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Summary: Complete waste of time and money
Review: Based on the "good reputation" of Maxtor hard drives, I bought one of these when my IBM "Deathstar" failed. That turned out to be a really bad choice... I thought the IBM's 2 year service life was bad, this "wonderful" Maxtor lasted about 6 weeks before having motor problems and it failed completely 2 weeks after that. Since I don't have an extra room in my apartment to store boxes for all of my electronic items, I threw away the original packaging (Maxtor requires this for returning the defective unit), so, I guess I now have a 90 dollar, two-month-old, paper weight. I replaced it with a Seagate Barracuda and, the jury is still out, but at least I won't have to worry about warranty coverage. The warranty on the Seagate drive stipulates that subjecting the drive to more than 350 G's will void the warranty, so, as long as I don't take it apart or throw it in front of a speeding bus, I should be covered. DON'T BUY A MAXTOR!!! Unless you enjoy throwing your money away.
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Summary: EZ install for a non-techie
Review: I had the hard drive 30 MB go south on an old machine my daughter was using for High School work. Wanted a small drive because the old processor didn't merit much of an upgrade. I never had attempted this before and after research on the WEB and talking with some friends decided to take the plunge. This MAXTOR was one of the smallest at the best price I could find. I was surprized by the CLEAR, STRAIGHTFORWARD instructions included in the box. I'll recommend all Maxtor HDs. This one works super. Now I'm considering more memory...
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Summary: Maxtor is French for "miserable"
Review: !!!!BUY A MAXTOR AT YOUR OWN PERIL!!!I have a Dell 1Gig, 512 machine, with the Maxtor 40G hard-drive as part of the initial build. Less than two weeks after my machine came off Warranty, the drive failed, completely and utterly. In breaking down my box, I found that the warranty was marked on the outside of the HD as "aug 03" (it's presently jul 03). So I called Maxtor. They claimed the HD warranty ended in May 03. The rep asked me to "send proof", which after some further discussion was a fax sent to Maxtor (which I had to send 3 times). After getting Maxtor support to help for about 15 minutes, they suddenly said, "this drive was OEM'd by Dell and as such you have to deal with them." When I pointed out that the warranty was still good according to the HD, I was handed around and eventually told, "tough luck". I'm going to try my luck with Western Digital.
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