DiamondMax Plus 8 blends performance and value in an ATA hard drive. This drive is the perfect combination for the mainstream consumer or commercial user. Offered in various capacities, the DiamondMax Plus 8 is equipped with fluid dynamic bearing motors. This technology minimizes the noise of the drive, which is especially important in personal video recorder applications. This fast performer at 7200 RPM and fast Ultra ATA 133 interface is the most reliable and robust single-head/single platter hard drive on the market.
bit noisy...
Rating
Written By purpleroba
Date Written Jan 18 2005
Summary
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...
Strength
reasonably priced (as of 1/18/05), nice support
Weakness
high-pitch noise
Bottom Line
Good price, and reliable, but my drive produces high-pitch noise...
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...
Strength
1. The drives only cost us about $40 per year - OUCH!!!
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...
Strength
Its still under warranty! Plus it still works fine as a non essential temp drive.
Weakness
It lasted only a year and a half before problems showed up.
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...
Strength
Disk makes a nice shiny paperweight.
You can pry out a really strong cool magnet.
Weakness
Less reliable than the infamous IBM deskstar from a couple of years back.
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...
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...
