What the &%$#&, Another hardrive failure!

[LubeDude]

I have had the worst luck with Maxtor Hard drives over the last three years. Durring that time period, I have had three Maxtor hard drives fail about a year apart, just past the warrantee oeriod. <br /><br />Is there something with my computer thats killing them?<br /><br />This is really getting old reloading everything every year!

 

[rwise]

Re: What the &%$#&, Another hardrive failure!

I have had much the same problem with maxtor and with seagate, western digital seams to work better for me. fuji and fujitsu are even worse, IMHO. How long per day is it powered up? Maybe go scsi, higher speed, more reliable.

 

[bootle]

Re: What the &%$#&, Another hardrive failure!

Ya must be using the wrong type of awl

 

[ndemge]

Re: What the &%$#&, Another hardrive failure!

LD....<br /><br />Do you power down/up every day?<br /><br />Is your power saver set to turn off the HD after so many minutes?<br /><br />In my opinion, it's better to get em running and leave em running than up down up down all the time.<br /><br /><br />Now, that's only if you have CLEAN REALIABLE power. Do you brownouts or quick power flucuations quite often? <br /><br />And on the other hand, maybe they just make junk now

 

[LubeDude]

Re: What the &%$#&, Another hardrive failure!

Originally posted by NoelMG:<br /> LD....<br /><br />Do you power down/up every day?<br /><br />

Yes I do, Power up in the morning and turn off at night.<br /><br />Now, "WHY"????????<br /><br />The computer is close to our bedroom, and the wife can hear the fans running at night and she is an "Extreamely" light sleeper. Momma aint happy, no body is happy!

 

[tommays]

Re: What the &%$#&, Another hardrive failure!

hows your power i have to use a UPS with AVR i dont get many blackouts but a LOT of high and low voltage<br /><br />Most of my problems have happened from letting them hibernate or a lot of on and off <br /><br />tommays

 

[LubeDude]

Re: What the &%$#&, Another hardrive failure!

Well, I just bought a Western Digital 160 gig, Thats all I need at Home, If I need more, Ill put in another one later. $89.00. Dont have too many places to shop for computer stuff around here. Staples has a 300gig for $99.00 after rebate, but I didnt want another Maxtor.<br /><br />Anyone want to guess what Ill be doing this weekend?

 

[Pascal]

Re: What the &%$#&, Another hardrive failure!

According to one of my cone head friends, Maxtor had a problem with a batch of "capacitors" used on the controler board. <br /><br />Can't remember when it started and don't know when it will end production using these parts but maxtor had a bunch of hard drives bundled with the windows op system for cheap and he bought up a bunch of them - turfed the hard drives and used the op systems for computers he was building to sell.<br /><br />Have had good luck with the two WD drives I've bought and the maxtor in the portable USB drive I bought 4 years ago had been pooched for 3 years.<br /><br />JD

 

[Paul Moir]

Re: What the &%$#&, Another hardrive failure!

The WD drives with the 3 year warranty have been excellent. Very quiet too.<br />I really can't I'm saying that, having lived through the 640/720/1.2/2.1/3.2GB WD ones. They must have been some of the worst made.

 

[BoatBuoy]

Re: What the &%$#&, Another hardrive failure!

Before I retired, we used to get drives in and the spec. sheet listed the MTBF something like 100,000 hrs. but the warranty was like 12 months. Go figure.

 

[Solittle]

Re: What the &%$#&, Another hardrive failure!

I have had good service with the WDs. I have a two drive system and use the second only for backup with a software product called True Image by Acronis. It backs up everything including Windows and all hidden files. If I have a hard disk crash of the master all I have to do is replace it and recover from the back up drive. No more rebuilding from scratch. Norton has a product called Ghost but True Image seems much easier.

 

[LubeDude]

Re: What the &%$#&, Another hardrive failure!

Boy, that was fun. "NOT"!!!!<br /><br />Anyway, Im up and running again here at home. Not 100% on all the programs, but running never the less.

 

[waterinthefuel]

Re: What the &%$#&, Another hardrive failure!

I was told it was a bad idea to power up and down your computer, just leave it on, especially with the auto-sleep mode they have now. It's a softer start than a hard boot. <br /><br />That was back when hardware wasn't as good of quality as it is now.