Seagate DiamondMax Plus 8 (40 GB)

Pros: Fast, Quiet, Looks Cool!

Cons: None so far, wish it had an 8mb cache instead of 2mb

The Bottom Line: Great harddrive, I would've paid full price even if the rebates weren't being offered, its that good!

Review: I picked up this hard drive from best buy for $40 after mail in rebates. It was replacing my old maxtor 30gig with 512kb cache. Upon opening the box I was impressed by the look of the harddrive, it was about 1/2 inch thinner than my old one and was...

Pros: reasonably priced (as of 1/18/05), nice support

Cons: high-pitch noise

The Bottom Line: Good price, and reliable, but my drive produces high-pitch noise...

Review: I bought the drive three weeks ago for my back up. Soon after I start using it, I noticed a high pitch noise coming from my computer. I checked CPU and case fan just in case, but it was coming from the drive. It was not accessing noise, and pretty ...

Pros: Its still under warranty! Plus it still works fine as a non essential temp drive.

Cons: It lasted only a year and a half before problems showed up.

Review: My drive is currently in its death throes as I type this. According to WinXP and Win2K, it has bad sectors popping up, unrepairable errors across all partitions and other ugly stuff. But some how it still manages to boot up! To be fair I've been ...

Pros: Um, er, well, uh, nice and shiny looking?

Cons: Slow, unreliable, unpredictable, noisy.

Review: I know nothing about computers, and when buying my last one, found that I had this Maxtor hard drive in it. Is it responsible for all these freezing programs, slow computing, noise, system failure, etc.? As I read on, it apparently is. This may be ...

Pros: 1. The drives only cost us about $40 per year - OUCH!!!

Cons: A 40% failure rate in less than 30 months?!

Review: About 2-1/2 years ago, I replaced the computers in our computer lab at our school by building new machines with my classes. It was a great learning experience for them, and several have gone on to build their own home machines. Now to the Maxtor ...

Pros: Disk makes a nice shiny paperweight. You can pry out a really strong cool magnet.

Cons: Less reliable than the infamous IBM deskstar from a couple of years back.

Review: Tried to use these as cheap boot/swap drives in a 12 node cluster about a year ago. I have a stack of 4 dead disks, and judging by the sounds I hear from some, that will score rise ...

Pros: Cheap

Cons: Dies after two years

Review: Have about 110 of these drives, about 15 of them have died. The drives are out of HP DC5100 PCs and has been a nightmare replacing these things. ...

Pros: none

Cons: it is dead

Review: I bought a Maxtor 40GB hard drive in the Netherlands in 2003, just to take some memorable files and a bunch of MP3s to the USA with me. Now it is March 2005, my wife put all her vital data on the same drive (40GB so what the heck...), and since last ...

Pros: Cheap

Cons: Everything else about it

Review: This drive is a complete waste of metal. Bought it brand new and in the box from a friend at a reduced price, luckily, because the drive does not work at all. After some research I discovered that this particular model is prone to firmware failure. DO ...