Maxtor Failure (Click of Death)

[Dolby3d]

I have just 1 big click

[c0rrupts3ct0r555]

d540x-4d maxtor, it is just like the older maxtors, same seek noise and head release.. i used to have a 40 gb maxtor of this flavor, it had bad sectors, so i met it the magnet. it sounded just like this too, with the krrrrrrrrrrrrrrr click krrrrrr krrr krrrrrrr click, then i beat the spindle with a screwdriver untiul the platters came unbalanced. stupid crapstor, stick with WDC.

[GogiRB]

men i've got a maxtor 300gb and It started to make weird sounds :( i'm worried 'bout it

btw any idea the warranty of maxtor?

[shaurz]

@GogiRB Make sure to back up all the data on the drive.

[shaurz]

@GogiRB I think the standard warranty on Maxtor drives is 3 years.

[c0rrupts3ct0r555]

@GogiRB there is none, because maxtor is no more (Seagate bought), the warranty is to replace with a ever reliable drive WDC.. never had an issue with one.

[dq476]

I've ony had good experience with WD, Seagate, Samsung, and IBM. I have had to maxtors, one has died, the other is in my ps2. WD in my laptop, desktop, samsung and seagate in my server, and ibm in my secondary desktop.

[shaurz]

@dq476 All my current drives are WD and Samsung. This was a really old 60GB drive which I had already stopped using.

[dq476]

@shaurz Yeah. It's all cool mate. ;) and WD is a good choice :)

[KingMacintosh]

@dq476 Funny you say that. I have one WD working from 1997. All my other WDs, 2007 internal 3.5, 2008 external 3.5, 2009 external 2.5, have died or dying. Many other stories of WDs junkies like I formally was show how we got fucked by WD's cheap junk. I have a Samsung ready to die, and a Maxtor just about dead but very corrupted. I have 2 Seagate, both working great, 1 Hitachi working great and a Fujitsu in a laptop. I guess time will tell. I'm with Seagate and Hitachi now thanks to experience.

[dq476]

Hmm, sounds like heat damage, or it might just be because its a maxtor..

[MrKillswitch88]

Dead pre-amp and very noisy spindle. Always check the smart data regularly for any warning of possible failure. Once you get a advisory about the spindle it is time to replace the drive as it is failing.

[DLiberator78]

Ouch! I've had one of those babies die on me also and I didn't back the damn thing up in time! Still we live and learn. I had a couple of Maxtor drives die on me and now I just don't buy them anymore. I share your pain.

[shaurz]

@DLiberator78 It was an old drive with nothing important on it. It was working when I stopped using it but when I tested it again this happened.

[bugusbugus]

All maxtor drives i had works fine

there is 1 thats crashed, a 80 gb

and a 80 has 1 bad sector and word @ 99%, so it works fine, and the older models works @ 100% and more than 400 days powered on.

When maxtor and seagate is 1 factory is bad, very bad, seagate are really the worst hard disks ever

buying 4 disks

in maybe a half year, al drives are in bad status :(

[iitsdayvid1]

LMAO thats wat my computer looks like

[liquidoxygen0]

Sounds like yet another bearings failure. Maxtor's DiamondMax and MaxLine drives have a very high rate of bearings failures and spindle jams. I had one fail on me last month after having been used for only ten months.

[TeamXR07]

my 80 Maxtor is not exactly clicking like scratch clicking? hard to explain but I bought a new hdd incase, sounds like it's on it's way out.

[orasis]

Every Maxtor I've ever had died. - They are horrible, horrible drives.

Best ones I've had are Western Digital. Seagate.. is so so 2 will work for a long time for ever 1 that dies prematurely.

NEVER EVER buy Maxtor hard drives -you're asking for it if you do.

[shaurz]

I bought this drive many years ago before I knew any better. I had already stopped using the drive before it failed. All my recent drives have been WDs except for a 1TB Samsung.

[GlycerinZ]

@orasis I couldn't agree more. Maxtor is the low end manufacturer, like ECS and PC Chips.. my friend bought a computer from Tigerdirect and both Seagates in it died within a few years. My brother had a Hitachi that died. I trust Western Digital only.

[halo3productions911]

@orasis Honestly,I have a PATA Maxtor 100 GB Hardrive.Used it for 5 years,never had a problem.

It really comes down to luck.You happened to have REALLY bad luck.

[KingMacintosh]

@orasis I just took out a 7-year old Maxtor that was corrupting itself. What a fucking nightmare that computer was until I replaced it for someone. I disagree with WD, I've had tons of issues with them too, only WD I have that works is from 1997. One from 2007, 2008 and 2009, dead bad bearings, dying, and dead from bad heads. But I totally agree with Maxtor, if anyone has a Maxtor, REMOVE AND REPLACE IT, GET AN IDE TO SATA CARD IF NEEDED.

[irulethe70s]

@orasis I have a dell that was given to me complete with a Maxtor 40GB not booting Linux

Installing 10.10, hope it works!

[orasis]

@irulethe70s

Yeah man, Max-Fail should be the company name.

Good luck! :D

[irulethe70s]

@orasis It has been giving me i/o errors like crazy, it is a non-critical computer until it gets a WD

[nibelungensohn]

You got it from newegg, didn't you?

[FUzzyBUnnyBOoties]

I wouldnt own another maxter even if it was free.

[daand12]

What's is the smart failure ?

I have the 40Gb Maxtor with the smart failure Reallocated sector count it have a normal data of 253 but it's now zero ( 0 ) maxtor's are really bad

[kishkizzle]

Excellent demo of the 'click of death' sound, actually. Maybe add that to description/tags/somewhere.

Maxtor inherited Quantum's reliability issues...I have no idea how they are still around. Same with Seagate - sure they made some of the first commercially popular drives but it doesn't change the fact everything since about '95 is junk in one way or another.