Beware of Maxtor Drives

**Hybr!d** · #11 30th Jul 2007, 03:45

Yeah, to be fair I have heard bad things about most of them. ;)

Hard drives on the whole are pretty unreliable, I expect as soon as RAM gets more advanced we will move away from them.

**Krlll** · #12 30th Jul 2007, 04:01

Yeah.Bring on the Solid State!
Some day we will look at these giant mechanical magnets we use and laugh.

**skinnyman9000** · #13 8th Aug 2007, 10:21

I have a 250GB maxtor drive in my external case. It cost me £100 around a yr ago, not sure if they would count as cheap or not back then.

It has decided that im not longer allowed to open several of my folders, and after being connected to the computer for 5-10 mins it decides to disconnect itself, very useful when burning music to a CD from it!

**slipend** · #14 8th Aug 2007, 10:51

What's the general perception of Western Digital hard drives?

**Hybr!d** · #15 8th Aug 2007, 11:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by slipend

What's the general perception of Western Digital hard drives?

I put them in No.1 spot by a long way.

**slipend** · #16 8th Aug 2007, 11:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

I put them in No.1 spot by a long way.

That's good to hear. I'm going to get a couple of 250Gb Sata2/300 drives.

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