Seagate FTW

havent had a Maxtor in the last 3 years which hasnt been dodgy to some extent or another, although the Maxtor 120G in my system at the moment has settled down since I water cooled it. Perhaps they just dont like getting hot.

Still, I buy nothing but Seagate now, have never yet had one fail and dont see the point in faffing around with anything else.

The present one is more than a year older and has baan working as the second drive in the compy. i copied everythng off that onto my USB drive and then cloned the SATA onto the IDE. Both are Maxtors, as have been most of my other drives. I have had 2 deathstars fail, click of death, but this is the first Maxtor.

When I first tried to copy it trueimage reported a fault at 5% copied. chkdsk crashed at 25% and on restart the drive didnt even appear in the bios. I thought that was the end for it. couple of hours later cooling down and it booted OK. got it to run all the way through on chkdsk then found that I had to find the IDE drive and partition it before I could have another go at copying. This time it worked.

The SATA will probably still work, but can I trust it and how long for :shrug:

i thought one of mine was failing, turned out to be the power supply going outta spec.



btw, i use getdataback to copy stuff off dead / dying / corrupt from partitions or drives, worked twice so far when ive forgotten the 137gb reg key in W2K installs, doh!

new drive despatched via tekvalue 72 hour shipping, arrives next day...

all my valuable pron ... err... data and books are securely backed up. Would only have had to install XP and programs again.

I started with Maxtor...wanted something faster....
Then Fujitsu...wanted something bigger...
Then IBM...boring and slow....so went to
SEAGATE
Never looked back.
I do have a mirrored pair of Samsung IDE drives for sensative/critical data.
Otherwise I just love the Seagate Barracudas SATA
-db-

new drive up and running OK - although I took my time over it.

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Checked the old one with maxtor powermax and it says its OK, so it can stay in as second drive.
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Could just have been overheating serious.

I removed two hard drives from my computer and fitted a few more fans. Now my computer will stay up, programs dont crash, and my hard drives no longer get really really hot, or make wierd noises.