Hard Drive reliability study - Make and models

1 year and a bit seems a very poor lifespan to me! Seems to me that 5 years would be more a guide... but I don't think you are saying your Maxtor was good are you?

 

ive had my maxtor just over two years so far as in chrismas two years ago
lodore

 

Actually any Maxtor drive you buy now is a Maxtor branded Seagate. Seagate Technologies purchased Maxtor some time ago.

 

Hello,
Never had troubles, knock on me wooden leg, with WD and Maxtor drivers.
Mrk

 

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No, I was very disappointed.

 

I have a Maxtor One Touch 120GB via Dell. Over 3 years and still running fine.

Your Maxtor(Seagate) sounds like a lemon, as it doesn't match common experience. You should claim a refund!

What did you replace it with and how is that working?

 

Forgive the lack of reference but some time ago there appeared an article about HDDs and the number one data recovery company in the industry said that they see less Seagates than any other brand by a long shot. They service every brand and see many, many drives in for data recovery daily. The company is Drive Solutions, Inc. (No this is not spam. The information is valuable in answering the question of drive reliability.) We of course use Seagate here as well.

 

Seagate has for a long time led the way in educating its channel partners on exactly how to be nice to HDDs, as well as innovative packaging and close relationships with their distributors\shippers.

There are alot of variables in the quality of materials, design and manufacturing
but by far the largest impact on reliability in HDDs is typically how many 400lb Gorilla stockboys\drivers are in between you and the manufacturer.
Something to think about next time you look at a HDD in a brick & mortor

 

Also, in the third world, refurbished goods are sold as brand-new

 

Something I look at: How far are they prepared to go to back up their product? When it comes to Seagate, pretty darn far. The Maxtor-branded DiamondMax have Three Year warranties, while the Seagate-branded barracuda drives have a FIVE year warranty. They have always led the industry with these warranties for consumer drives and to me - that says a lot.

 

WD Raptor and Caviar RE2 drives also have a FIVE year warranty

 

Those are Western Digital's so-called 'enterprise drives'. The regular WD retail consumer drives have a one-year warranty.
http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp
In the United States, all Seagate and Maxtor-branded internal drives now have a 3 or 5 year warranty. In other words, a warranty that is three to five times longer than WD internal consumer drives.

 

True

My take