80GB Maxtor Diamond Max 9 - DEAD

Yep, when your drive dies and you hear clicking... this is what's going on.

Look at the gouges on the surface of the platters!

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[StapledNote]

wow, every maxtor seems to fail! get hitatchi or seagate. theyre good

[skinnepa]

Yep, Maxtor drives suck.

I've rebuilt and replaced all Maxtor drives at home. Running Seagate 500GBs in RAID 1 now!

[lebcrx]

pr0n overload

failure inevitable

[skinnepa]

That's my new 2TB array. Be fair fool.

[tyleralan11]

did you say the platters are damage?

[skinnepa]

Yep. The inside and outside extents of the platter are chewed up. You can't really see it in the video.

[DURAMATRIX112]

maxtors are cursed!!

[bowzerpi]

Sounds like a broken Game & Watch system.

[IamFat32]

mine won't even fricken spin up! but the heads and disk platters are fine. piece of sh1t. exact same drive too.

[irulethe70s]

@skinnepa Still waitiong for the maxtor D740X-6L 40GB to die in my Dell 4300S

[irulethe70s]

@skinnepa The only support we give is "get a Western Digital"

Segate drives went down the toilet when maxtor bought them

[KingMacintosh]

@DanielChristy19 My ass. Chinese? Not too sure they were just Chinese. It was a steal and Seagate finally fucking dissolved that company. All Hard Drives need to be researched before bought these days. Western Digital is gobbling up Hitachi, I like(d) them, and you fucking WD fans hated them, so go whine about their factories now.

[KingMacintosh]

@skinnepa Cheers to the Seagates, me too! I've been very happy with my Seagate purchases after all the trouble I went through with Western Digital and even one Samsung ShitPoint is giving me troubles. You should see this Seagate in the Dell Dimension fly. Holy fucking cow, you could mistake it for a SSD. Opens programs in 1-3 seconds. It's phenomenal what those old Pentium 4s can do, the basic office stuff of course, with a good HD and some RAM and good old Windows XP.

[KingMacintosh]

@StapledNote Thank fucking god! Someone who isn't a Western Digital thumper. I had 3 fucking Western Digitals fail on me bro, 2 externals, one internal, 2 3.5", 1 2.5". Fuck them! In the 90s they were great, but not for me now though. I don't want to hear about WD myself anymore, I almost lost my data! I also like both Seagate and Hitachi. Sadly, Hitachi's going to get gobbled by WD. Oh well, looks like it's Seagate then, no way I'm getting Samsung. Cheers.

[KingMacintosh]

@skinnepa LMFAO! I second that. Another really rare case here, our Maxtor was Manf. Mid 2003, was in use from December 2003 until July 2011. I hated it from the first day. Noisy piece of shit, older motors my ass. Yup, it had tons of bad sectors forever (few years, comp wasnt used much tho) managed to boot work enough to get our data off from it, and I FINALLY just removed it for a new Seagate 320GB. Ours was in a Dell DIM 4600. I can't wait to smash it, it's gonna feel great fucking cheap shit!

[skinnepa]

@TheComputerVlogger Amazing. You have some rare examples of some terrible hard drives there. I'm afraid you won't get much support here as we are clearly Maxtor haters.

Thanks for the post. Get video when they die.

[c0rrupts3ct0r555]

bzzt beep bzzt beep bzzt beep head crash. btw, good maxtor remix, DJ maxtor spin it for us.

[combossss]

the danm! same problem here ahh i hate maxtor my samsung hard disk worked a bout 6 years time for a new one i have a western digital 1.5 TB and one 500GB they work good never had problems well bye bye data on my maxtor ahhh