Dying Maxtor 120gb

jmke · 1st September 2004, 21:25

Ever had this happen to you? My maxtor 120gb is slowly dying, I'm transferring data from the disk at 1500kb/s , and about 50% of it is unreadable.. it still runs, and apparantly has been running for quite some time like that since I use it as a 3rd storage disk and only recently noticed it when I tried to copy/move some files.

not sure if I still have warranty, if not this drive is going to be massacared :grin:

1st September 2004, 21:30

Only Seagate for me from now on... 5 years warranty

(Not of much use when a disk crashes fatally full of data but still

)

Sidney · 1st September 2004, 21:50

How old is it? Try RMA??
4 IBM Drives and 1 Western Digital in the last 4 years. I did get replacement on all of them.
It sucks, doesn't it/

RichBa5tard · 1st September 2004, 21:50

Warranty period of seagate's already changed? I thought it was still under consideration.

@jmke: try unplugging it and let it cool down.

jmke · 1st September 2004, 21:56

@Lazyman: don't know how old, have 6x120gb Maxtor drives here bought at different times, I need to check the RMA status at maxtor site, but for that I need to remove it from the system, I'm transferring data first before final shutdown

@Richbastard: system is down every other 17hours, even after first bootup it shows errors.

luckily no precious data is stored on any of my drives which is NOT backupped

Laagvliegerke · 2nd September 2004, 17:57

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage...901082859.html
Dunno if this counts for all the HD's they sold in the past five years. I don't think so

BTW, you only need 160 DVD's for a backup of those 6 drives.

9th September 2004, 09:52

well, the 160 dvd would still be chaeper, $160 would only get you 2 x 160 2mb cache drives from samsung

jmke · 9th September 2004, 10:09

low level format + burn in test declared the drive safe to use again.. gonna use it as a temp storage device I think

jmke · 17th October 2004, 13:31

yeaay; the other 120GB Maxtor which I bought around the same time is showing the same problems; yippie

kr15t0f · 17th October 2004, 13:38

Quote:

Originally posted by jmke
yeaay; the other 120GB Maxtor which I bought around the same time is showing the same problems; yippie

1st September 2004, 21:25	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 78,458	Dying Maxtor 120gb Ever had this happen to you? My maxtor 120gb is slowly dying, I'm transferring data from the disk at 1500kb/s , and about 50% of it is unreadable.. it still runs, and apparantly has been running for quite some time like that since I use it as a 3rd storage disk and only recently noticed it when I tried to copy/move some files. not sure if I still have warranty, if not this drive is going to be massacared :grin: __________________

1st September 2004, 21:50	#3
Sidney [M] Reviewer Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,739	How old is it? Try RMA?? 4 IBM Drives and 1 Western Digital in the last 4 years. I did get replacement on all of them. It sucks, doesn't it/ __________________ lazyman Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II

1st September 2004, 21:50	#4
RichBa5tard [M] Reviewer/HWBot ***** Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,344	Warranty period of seagate's already changed? I thought it was still under consideration. @jmke: try unplugging it and let it cool down. __________________ HTPC (mac osx): Mac Mini \| Core Duo 1.6Ghz \| 2GB DDR2 \| 26\" TFT Development (mac osx): Macbook \| Core 2 2.0Ghz \| 4GB DDR2 \| 250GB HD Games (win xp): E2160 @ 2.4Ghz \| HD3850 OC \| Asrock 4coredual-vsta \| 2GB DDR2

1st September 2004, 21:56	#5
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 78,458	@Lazyman: don't know how old, have 6x120gb Maxtor drives here bought at different times, I need to check the RMA status at maxtor site, but for that I need to remove it from the system, I'm transferring data first before final shutdown @Richbastard: system is down every other 17hours, even after first bootup it shows errors. luckily no precious data is stored on any of my drives which is NOT backupped __________________

9th September 2004, 10:09	#8
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 78,458	low level format + burn in test declared the drive safe to use again.. gonna use it as a temp storage device I think __________________

1st September 2004, 21:30	#2
Roswell Posts: n/a	Only Seagate for me from now on... 5 years warranty (Not of much use when a disk crashes fatally full of data but still )

2nd September 2004, 17:57	#6
Laagvliegerke Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 229	http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage...901082859.html Dunno if this counts for all the HD's they sold in the past five years. I don't think so BTW, you only need 160 DVD's for a backup of those 6 drives.

9th September 2004, 09:52	#7
IKilledMyAGOIA Posts: n/a	well, the 160 dvd would still be chaeper, $160 would only get you 2 x 160 2mb cache drives from samsung

17th October 2004, 13:31	#9
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 78,458	yeaay; the other 120GB Maxtor which I bought around the same time is showing the same problems; yippie __________________

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