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Delano762

Member

Maxtor Hard Drive

Allright, so I'm kinda running out of space on my hard drive, and what I have here, is Maxtor One Touch III 320GB external hard drive lying here for about two years. Did anyone here ever had experience with this drive? I hear that it totally sucks, and the last thing I need is losing lots of data, so I'm not sure whether to install it or tell Santa Claus to get me a good hard drive this Christmas.

Iritscen

Moderator

Re: Maxtor Hard Drive

I had a Maxtor drive which died after a while (no more than a couple years, I think).  But all my external drives die at some point.

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byproducts are fine, but where's the beef?

Lukas Kreator

Member

Re: Maxtor Hard Drive

Well, I'm currently using a Maxtor and it's been working fine for quite some time.

TOCS

Member

Re: Maxtor Hard Drive

I've had a Maxtor drive for about 7 years, and I had no problems. My little sister is using it now, because I bought myself a 120 and 160 GB SSD, as well as a 1 TB WD.
If you're careful it won't die on you that fast.

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Delano762

Member

Re: Maxtor Hard Drive

If you're careful it won't die on you that fast.

What should I do for example?

TOCS

Member

Re: Maxtor Hard Drive

If you're careful it won't die on you that fast.

What should I do for example?

I don't know, just don't throw around with externals like my friends. >_< It ends up breaking eventually then.

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Iritscen

Moderator

Re: Maxtor Hard Drive

My external HDs break even though I never touch them or move them.  Moral of the story is, Don't keep anything on the external HD that you aren't okay with losing, or else make backups of it.

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byproducts are fine, but where's the beef?

Phydur

Member

Re: Maxtor Hard Drive

wich is ironic, since generaly people use external HDs _for_ backing up files.

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Bozzman

Member

Re: Maxtor Hard Drive

I also find it funny since most external harddrives are nothing but internal harddrives in enclosures.

Last edited by Bozzman (29/10/11 22:11)

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Here take this hypo!

Iritscen

Moderator

Re: Maxtor Hard Drive

Yes, but it seems that the enclosures are generally cheap and something always eventually breaks.  At least, that's been my experience with almost every brand of HD.

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byproducts are fine, but where's the beef?