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Summary: Perfect Secondary/Backup Hard Drive 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: Lost Drive one month after warranty
Review: I used this drive regularly but not overused. Right after the warranty expired, it starts to buzz loudly and blink a red light. My Dell computer doesn't see it anymore so I basically lost all the video that was on the drive. There is no troublshooting info with the guide or relevant information at the Maxtor site. Not even any info about what the red light means (a presume it means the worse). I know this product has been discontinued but there should be better support. I have more than one of these so now I'm worried about the others going down as well (they have a few more months on their warranties)
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Summary: Avioid At All Cost ! ! !
Review: If there ever was a 1.0 product the Maxtor 3000DV qualifies! I have had 3 (yes 3) different 3000DV drives fail in less than 2 years. My last drive drops frames significantly. I have isolated the problem down to the 3000DV drive by swaping out every component that I use for capturing video. I have tried putting my current Maxtor drive in another external firewire kit and I can replicate the problem. I have also found out that I am not having an isolated problem. I have contacted Maxtor Customer Service to get a replacment drive to no avail eventhough it is pretty obvious that they have a defective product. This is defenitley a buyer-beware product.
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Summary: Maxtor quit
Review: It started buzzing and would not work a few months after the warranty expired. Now it is junk. Expensive device considering it doesn't last very long.
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Summary: failed after warranty over
Review: My dell computer was just driving me insane with that slow and noisy hard drive. So I searched around and found out about Maxtor. The review and comparison matrix was looking pretty good so I settled for something big enough and not too expensive. I have been using this for a year now, and overall the experience has been a pleasure. This hard drive just sits there quietly and I have reduced my program compile time by 50%. Faster than the internal drive! I think that was pretty awesome. The reason that I didn't rated this item as 5 stars, though, was that it gets bad sectors from time to time and I had to run scan disk quite often (about once a month or so). However, it has never caused me data loss, which is very interesting. Only the output directory gets corrupted so my guess is that it cannot handle too frequent file reading/writing/deletion. Also I suspect that the stop device doesn't really work that well, because it still keeps running after stopping the device in windowsXP. So I am pretty careful nowadays. I always shut down the computer, wait for the hard drive to quite down (you can still tell the difference, even though it is alreay less noisy than the computer fan), and unplug the power line. No on/off switch seems to be a inconvenience, but not that much. Reading the other review, I just hope that mine can last long enough. Otherwise I'll come back and change my review. :)
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Summary: Fast with minor problems
Review: My dell computer was just driving me insane with that slow and noisy hard drive. So I searched around and found out about Maxtor. The review and comparison matrix was looking pretty good so I settled for something big enough and not too expensive. I have been using this for a year now, and overall the experience has been a pleasure. This hard drive just sits there quietly and I have reduced my program compile time by 50%. Faster than the internal drive! I think that was pretty awesome. The reason that I didn't rated this item as 5 stars, though, was that it gets bad sectors from time to time and I had to run scan disk quite often (about once a month or so). However, it has never caused me data loss, which is very interesting. Only the output directory gets corrupted so my guess is that it cannot handle too frequent file reading/writing/deletion. Also I suspect that the stop device doesn't really work that well, because it still keeps running after stopping the device in windowsXP. So I am pretty careful nowadays. I always shut down the computer, wait for the hard drive to quite down (you can still tell the difference, even though it is alreay less noisy than the computer fan), and unplug the power line. No on/off switch seems to be a inconvenience, but not that much. Reading the other review, I just hope that mine can last long enough. Otherwise I'll come back and change my review. :)
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Summary: failed after warranty over
Review: This EXTERNAL drive failed just after 1 year warranty expired,
and I haven't used it very often - just occasional backups. Now, it just makes a lot of clicking noises when turned on.
My computer no longer recognizes it - the drive is toast. (I have an INTERNAL Maxtor drive that seems to be fine, however,
it is only about one year old - crossing my fingers.) I used to think Maxtor was tops in reliability.
I'll buy Seagate or IBM from now on. I've had no trouble
with them.
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