RSSMaxtor to Launch 500GB Hard Drives
By Ed Oswald | Published June 6, 2005, 11:58 AM
Maxtor said on Monday that it would bring to the market hard drives with half a terabyte capacities in the third quarter of this year. The company says that the new drives would feature "significant improvements" in security and performance. The new 500GB SATA and ATA 133 drives would run at a speed of 7,200 RPM.
"Maxtor continues to focus on storage solutions tailored for specific market needs," said David Reinsel, director of storage research at IDC. "The Maxtor 500GB hard drive underscores the company's emphasis on differentiation across all of its product lines, and reflects competitiveness within market segments demanding the highest capacity drives."
I wonder how loud it'll be...
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|It wont be too loud, certainly louder than a Seagate... that is until it crashes and burns in flames.
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|Its a fact that some of the early Maxtor drives were pretty reliable. But any drive made after 2001 SUCKS. Hitachi and Seagate are the best hard drives in my books.
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|I'll take two, thank you. Never had a single problem with a Maxtor drive in almost a decade of using them, but if a device is mechanical, it can fail.
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|I still remember the first hard drive I saw in person, it was a 5 MB external SCSI (really huge beast) attached to an Apple ][. I was in awe of it...
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|Pretty cool.
I remember thinking I was the shiznit when I had a 425MB HD in my 486 80Mhz :-)
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|Nice. The larges harddrive I've ever seen was 1.6 Terrabytes, but that was external.
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|Ive got 6tb here made out of Seagate 250GBs. Had to replace all the drives with Seagates as the Maxtors kept failing.
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|It's like anything else. Some work and some don't it's not limited to a certain manufacturer.
I have 2-Maxtor 32049H2 5 years old, 1-IBM DTLA 307045 5 years old, 1-Western Digital WD153BA 5 years old, and 2- Western Digital WD800JB that are about 2 years old.
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|kewl !!
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|A question to Paul Lush... How long have you used Maxtor drives?
I have used them for MANY years, and found them to be more reliable than Western Digital or most others for that matter.
In fact the one in the machine I am using right now is OVER 10 YEARS old. And guess what?
NO PROBLEMS EVER!
In fact I mostly recommend Maxtor to my customers.
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|It's all about models. See how long the 40GB DiamondMax ATA133 drive lasts you...or the old 4GB WDC drives with the recall? Don't forget the Maxtor 120GB SATA drives "loosing sectors" or WDC's noise problem with the old 10GB 7200RPM ata66's...however having replaced over 500 hard drives for a large pc manufactorer I DO find more Maxtor's with heat related problems than any other vendor. Maxtor DID make decent drives 5 and 10 years ago...but heck I have an old WDC MFM 5.25" 31MB drive that still works too--every manufacturer made great drives in the 1980's when quality was everything. I have an 8GB maxtor drive that still works too, but personally, in the past 10 or so years having owned about 20 hard drives I've had one Seagate fail and SIX Maxtor's fail (granted 4 were those stupid half-height 20gb drives. Another 4.7 and a 518MB failed as well. My 200MB WDC and 1.2GB Seagate run fine...) Now running strictly WD--a 30GB, four total 20GB drives (one is 5400RPM others 7200RPM), a 120GB SATA WDC, and those two old ones I check out in my 486 every once in a while. Yeah I don't have any big ones yet. Don't need em.
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|Ive used Maxtors (unfortunately) for MANY years as well, getting on near 15 I should think. Have you ever used a Maxtor is a RAID 5 array? If not, then youve never stressed them. Under stress, they fail a LOT more than anything else. Ring your closest harddrive disaster recovery office, ask them what model drive fails TWICE as much as all the other drives put together. Theyll answer Maxtor. I know, I worked in disaster recovery. I dont make comments here just for the sake of it.
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|Pity Maxtor drives are sooooo unreliable.
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|You have numbers to back that up? Never had a problem with them here. I guess your mileage may vary, but I like them.
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|Read my post above for some numbers...MODERN drives I find WDC and Seagate close to perfect, Maxtor (based on the numbers) suck, Hitatchi is pretty bad but usually they last about 3 years--Maxtors average at 6-9 months for me.
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|Wow, that's a large amount of storage space. Imagine daisy chaining a couple of those puppies together? 1 Terabyte of space! I wonder if the same size disk drives will be in the older ATA format as well.
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|"The new 500GB SATA and ATA 133 drives would run at a speed of 7,200 RPM."
Amazing what you can discover if you READ THE ARTICLE :)
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|I would recommend Maxtor Or WDs to any one i have 8 hardrives in my system all 7200rpm 4 maxtor 4 wds totaly 500gigs all are 4-5 years old atleast. On the heat issue someone said all my drives are side by side in a mid tower case no problems. I also have a 13 gig maxtor i got ages ago in my nix box i broke off the power plugs and resolderd a new one on and drive still works.
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|I hate double-posts...
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|Yeah, statistics show that hard drives regardless of brand will last longer in larger towers than smaller form factors.
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|D'oh! Sure enough...
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