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No such thing as a decent brand really mate, good and bad apples in all brands. For example Maxtors are actually my second favorite since they are so quiet and fast (Seagates are number 1 because they are better on both counts in my experience). yet you have a noisey Maxtor so you think differently of the brand range.

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Plus Seagate == Maxtor now

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Interesting, what do you all make of Hitacthi *sp*, and Western Digital?

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Just as a side note have you considered your drive simply might have worked loose and its that your hearing? maybe fit it into 5.25 inch with some dampening

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We only just fitted it into this chassis, the noise is like a old p1 HD lol, very grindy sort of noise when being read.

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My Maxtor is the same. Tried AMSET but because it's on sata it didn't pick it up. Maxtor support were as useful as the proverbial chocolate fireguard, considering the gumph about Amset said that if the drive wasn't detected to contact them for help!

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This is the second Maxtor drive which just after 12month gets noisy and soon after dies.

I may go down the three HD route all about 200gb if I can, and follow the path Zingle mentioned previously.

Just cost and time, I've an house to get decorated and sorted but my hobbies are gaming and when I come and sit down get into a good game on Halo only for the HD to be grinding away then a lock up....

Today done a full re-format and made sure I created a new partition and did the longer format to ntfs, since I've got back into windows its alot quicker, but still noisy

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Maxtors have come a long way and are suprisingly quiet these days : I too used to avoid them like the plague until recently when I had a failure on my co located server.

I was running the IBM deathstars LOL and they are so bad that even lemmings cant keep up with their downtime. Was very lucky to have had them running in the machine for 5 years but one of them died just recently rushed to the data centre and to my suprise the buddy I rent the space from actually had a pack of like 20 odd maxtors - interesting -and this guy is like 100x more techie than me.

Anyway I popped a maxtor in there so far so good ...

Just logged on and am seeing errors on the second old IBM deathstar grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....

root enigma:~> uptime
11:56pm up 41 days, 6:15, 1 user, load average: 2.03, 2.05, 2.04
root enigma:~> grep error /var/log/messages
Oct 15 10:00:10 enigma kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Oct 15 10:00:10 enigma kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Oct 15 10:46:34 enigma kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Oct 15 14:00:07 enigma kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Oct 15 14:00:07 enigma kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Oct 15 15:00:10 enigma kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Oct 15 16:00:06 enigma kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Oct 15 17:00:09 enigma kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }


feck I cant be assed to go and fix it : I just let it break and then go :)

ps I still prefer seagates

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I think I shall steer from Maxtors in the future then.

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No mate I was talking about the IBM deathstar I was actually praising the Maxtors in that they are a lot better these days than they used to be.

For me order of preference

(1) Seagate
(2) Maxtor
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:rofl:

I see your point...just Maxtors I've owned always seem to have a 14month lifespan :lol:

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Fair enough give Seagate a try then I've primarily been using seagates and had just the 1 failure with a Seagate - not bad going considering.

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Well I will be talking three harddrives and likely replace my budget dvdrw combi drive while I am at it.

Been getting some strange lockups today...could be HD related...hope not.

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Just to clarify my Maxtor has done that noise thing since purchase (about 13 m/o now).

Have you checked Event Viewer - sometimes get HD-related error messages in there.

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Come to think of it I never even view the event logger :rofl: I just use the machine and do the standard maintence once a month.

It has been noisy since I got it in 05, but recently it has increased.