On Sunday 19 April 2009 11:02:55 Alan Pearson wrote:
> Without being funny, I wouldn't touch a moxtor drive with yours.
>
> I look after about 500 spinning disks in our company (from servers to  
> desktops) and out of the 8 drive failures I've had in 3 years, 4 have  
> been maxtor.
> Plus I've had the misfortune to have 2 fail at home, and I swear I'll  
> never, ever, touch one again, no matter how cheap they are.
>
> I've got Seagate drives spinning from many years ago, and they're the  
> only ones I'll buy now.

Seagate purchased Maxtor several years ago. They are now the same company.


>
> But Dustins right, the minute you see stuff like that from a drive,  
> return it or bin it, it's not worth even messing about with the  
> manufacturer utilities which may relocated bad sectors etc, the drive  
> has past it's 'trust level'. 

I agree.  The Seagate/Maxtor 1TB drives from the last year seem to have been 
particularly bad.   I've purchased a couple dozen and I've had to return five 
in the last year.  Fortunately Seagate has a pretty easy RMA/return procedure.  
Just go to the website and they'll generate an RMA along with shipping 
instructions right there.  You don't even have to speak to a person.


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