Animorc Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 IIRC, only the drives named 75GXP and 120GXP were faulty, so any drive above newer than that should be fine.And as a sidenote, I'm still running Windows XP on an IBM Deskstar 30GB 75GXP, so I guess some of us are lucky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zygi Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Thank you very much for info, after all its not that bad http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200601/250_1.html Looks like good deal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Maxtor FTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Meh...they slashed their warranties drastically on most of their drives. Seagate FTW (5 years warranty!), though since Maxtor got bought, things are going to get interesting in the storage arena. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 My 300GB Diamondmax 10 is incredibly quiet (and like 3x faster), it's a huge improvement over the old Diamondmaxes. NCQ is godly too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technarch Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 I also still have an operational 30g 75gxp but it's noisy (5 platters) so I took it out and put it in an enclosure but now it's too small sigh.There is a firmware update for the drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcon4 Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 I may be popping into this thread a little too late, but I do have a suggestion.It might help to have a dedicated internal or external torrent drive (or just a data drive) and use your manufacturer's "acoustic managment" utility (I know this exists for Maxtors, might need to use Ultimate Boot CD for them and other MFGs) to set your drive to Quiet mode. Under Quiet mode, it places much less priority on "getting there fast" and more on "using less power" -> less noise -> less heat -> LESS WEAR. Since torrenting is far from time-sensitive, it certainly wouldn't hurt. And since it's not a program or operating system drive, the slower speed won't affect your normal computer operation either.Now, if I could just find a way to run that on my 100gb 2.5" external USB HDD... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da chicken Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 Maxtor FTWAh ha ha ha.We used to get Maxtor DiamondMAX 8 HDDs in the OEM PCs at work. We noticed a whole lot of them seemed to fail. When we did some checking on the inventory numbers, the HDD were failing at a rate of 10% in the first six months and nearly 25% at 1 year (of roughly 400 PCs). I did some research, and it turns out that this model of Maxtor HDD has a defect that causes it to corrupt it's own firmware. Yet Maxtor kept manufacturing them and selling them.WD or Seagate for me, thanks. I'd go with anything short of a Bigfoot drive than buy another Maxtor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcon4 Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 I wouldn't trust a WD as far as I can throw it. WDs are the ones that corrupt their own firmware or whatever - I've got 3 or 4 dead WDs (out of maybe 5 or 6) that either completely won't even try spinning up, or when they do, they report ridiculous models and parameters.As far as Maxtor goes, I've got a 286 with a 120mb Maxtor drive that still has zero bad sectors, and my desktop's data drive is a 4 or 5 year old Maxtor 60gb drive. My desktop's main drive is a Maxtor 80gb drive. My server runs on a 40gb Maxtor drive (with a secondary 60gb WD drive I still don't trust), and my temporary DVD images are stored on a 60gb WD in a USB case.More WDs have failed than I care to even count. Maxtors? A very rare sight. But many people have reversed and shuffled experience with these drives... I don't know what's with the variation. Sometimes I think it doesn't come down to brand at all. It could just be the nature of a hard drive. Who the heck knows? All I know is I've had extremely great luck with Maxtor drives, and absolute nil luck with WDs...So... meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 I've got 4 Maxtors, and all of them are great. :/ I've never had a problem with it. I have, however, had several dead WDs.My latest is a spiffy 300GB drive with NCQ, it's very silent and much faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcon4 Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 Holy shit, 300gb? Good god. And I thought my 100gb, uhm... *looks up model string* Fujitsu 2.5" drive was big. Well, actually, it is... it's my biggest hard drive, so that's gotta count for something. Nice to have another Maxtor fan around, though But what's NCQ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 I've got an 80GB, a 160GB, a 250GB, and a 300GB (the 80GB is in my parent's PC)NCQ is Native Command Queueinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_command_queueing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 Picking whichever drive you've had good luck with FTW.Seriously, they're all basically the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonGato Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 Maxtor... naaaa, lots of problems here. WD is a compatibility madness as well.I'm using Seagate and more recently Hitachi. No problems so far with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thargs Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 In the last month utorrent has been thrashing my HDD. The drive will eventually stall and hang the whole system. I then tried azureus on the same download and all is fine. Its a 2 year old 160 gig WDIt runs fine. So the download on utorrent would go to 50k (on a 512adsl connection) and then after say 30 seconds the HDD light would come on permanently, utorrent download would reduce to zero (slowly) and then the system would eventually hang. Has happened each time I use utorrent now. So went to azureus (had it already installed) and so far no HDD issues.Is it the HDD or utorrent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osm0sis Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 were you using the newest beta? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 µTorrent most likely, since the problem didn't occur with Az. Try the latest betas, they have diskio.coalesce_writes on by default. That might help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tumu Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 Your hd is most likely on the verge of dying permanently. Try with another hd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Buzzard Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 What tumu said but remove the words "most likely" because that sounds exactly like the controller is going out on that drive. Get another drive and start copying anything you don't want to lose ASAFP. The good news is that drive should still be under warranty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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