rocky5689 Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 Does anyone knows what brand of hard drive(200gb) staples has on sale on black friday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conehead433 Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 Maxtor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enoreeman Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 Maxtors drives have a higher failure rate from my own experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conehead433 Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 Maxtors drives have a higher failure rate from my own experienceI have 5 Maxtor drives currently and have never had one completely fail. Not saying I haven't lost data before. Most hard drives will at some point will have bad sectors. Some periodic maintenance will keep you from losing data and possibly prevent the complete failure of your drive. Run Scandisk occaisionally and check the box to scan for bad sectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itdefx Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 I agree here...I use to think western digital was a really good drive until 5 years ago. Bought three 30 gig hard drives online and within 3 months all of them died. Western Digital's response to it? After I gave them the serial numbers they gave me this bs that the drives were sold to outside the US and resold to the US...there solution? give me 30 dollar credit towards the purchase of a new one on each one I was really pissed. So I went out and bought a COMPUSA/Maxtor drive and haven't had any problems since. Maxtor all the way, western digital can be a brick for me to throw at :) I have 5 Maxtor drives currently and have never had one completely fail. Not saying I haven't lost data before. Most hard drives will at some point will have bad sectors. Some periodic maintenance will keep you from losing data and possibly prevent the complete failure of your drive. Run Scandisk occaisionally and check the box to scan for bad sectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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