Not to forget the once most popular brand of hard drives Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y080L0

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swaggat@reddit

I think I still have all my Maxtors around. None of them failed me, unlike my original IBM Deathstar...

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namek0@reddit

Quantum Fireballs were probably my fav drive

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Exact opposite experience, I had a 30GB quantum fireball fail (from a presario 5000), and a Maxtor 80GB (almost certainly this exact model) that I bought at Staples in a big retail box fail. Also a Seagate 300gb.

That said, I also have another of the same model of 300gb Seagate and 80gb Maxtor still functioning in fat PS2s with broadband/hdd adapters to this day. Guess it helps that they were rarely actively in use.

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Straight_Finger1776@reddit

I remember getting a Quantum Bigfoot 2 GB hand-me-down and being so excited. Something about the 5.25" format just seemed cool.

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NSE-Imports@reddit

They were awesome drives at the time, incredibly fast and price per GB was pretty good. Their only real weakness was head crashes. We pre built systems with them and despite telling folks to transport the system home upright treating it like a Fabergé egg, we had so many that came back.

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Harneybus@reddit

i nust backed uo my okd 15gb drive

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PCMasterX@reddit (OP)

That model also exists under the name Maxtor ...

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ResidueAtInfinity@reddit

oh man... I have a graveyard of clicky IBM Deathstars

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ZorakOfThatMagnitude@reddit

I remember doing field support when Dell had a rash of drive failures in their optiplex series. Every single failed drive was a Maxtor. Pretty sure Dell switched to Western Digital after that.

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Hobthrust@reddit

I've got a couple of this exact disk on the shelf that I pulled out of old AMD K8 Optiplexs... Great PCs though.

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BrockVegas@reddit

I bought a used 40GB Deathstar back in their heyday and immediately stuck it in one of the 5 1/4" active cooling bays. I eventually sold it to a friend in a computer who came back to me 5-6 years later asking me what to do with said computer as he hated to throw out

..a perfectly working computer...

That HDD had zero faults, zero bad sectors and never failed to spin up... I worked for a local SI around then and probably swapped out a thousand of those HHD's in client machines.

I still don't know if we were just lucky, or it if twas the massive chunk of metal keeping it cool.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk, it was most excellent

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PCMasterX@reddit (OP)

One of my Maxtor HDDs fell into the water from my pocket while I was riding my bike when I went to a friend's house. I thought there was nothing left of it, but I opened it, dried it, closed it and it worked without any errors, unbelievable but true...

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DeepDayze@reddit

Those drives were tanks that’s for sure

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Crashman09@reddit

I had one in 20gb

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Tough_Ad4995@reddit

All mine failed making horrible duck noises

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RealTrueGrit@reddit

These maxtor drives are the best. All my old maxtor drives still work. Cant say that about any other drive brand.

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Tinguiririca@reddit

I still have several of these in various sizes in working condition.

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Calm_Apartment1968@reddit

Those 80's were a workhorse for years.

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SaturnFive@reddit

I have a 100GB Maxtor from 2000 that's plugging along in my Win98 box. It's noisy and slow enough that it fits right in XD

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9646gt@reddit

Some people used to knock these drivers but I always had great luck with them! I was a technician at the time and it was the Western Digital drives that started with BB in the model/serial that were truly terrible. I'd replace them left and right just outside the one year warranty in OEM computers. Not outside of the BB drives WD is probably my favorite and most reliable drives I have experience with

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ScottieNiven@reddit

I still use a 7L300R0 300GB IDE drive in my Original Xbox, works a treat.

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Baselet@reddit

Lots of these in XP era dells and fujitsu desktops and such. I probably have a few somewhere in the closet at the moment.

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bwyer@reddit

I understand that early Maxstor was good, but that something happened to kill their quality at some point.

I had no end of problems with their drives to the point that I referred to them as “Crapstor”.

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Ludo_IE@reddit

Seagate acquired Maxtor. It's what happened.

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DreSmart@reddit

I still have 3 and all work

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locojason@reddit

Same! in fact they are my only vintage drives that still work. Longevity and durability are slightly different things though… I guess results may vary. All the WD and Seagate drives I had from 1998-2005 have long since bit the dust.

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Electronic_Algae_524@reddit

The original Quantum in my Compaq Portable II finally went belly up last year. 40 years old. Not bad.

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Efficient-Regular-30@reddit

Hi, I have a question about this specific model.

Last week I noticed that my Maxtor Diamond HDD started to fail. I had it in my retro Pentium III machine, and the system only booted about 4 out of 10 times. I wanted to save my files from it to a Samsung drive, but while I was trying to boot it, one of the chips caught fire and burned part of the board.

So I ordered another identical Maxtor drive. My question is: if I take the PCB from the new one and install it on the damaged drive, would it work? I only need to recover the data from it.

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BeatTheMarket30@reddit

These are great drives. Much quieter than Western Digital at the time. I have both and WD sound terrible. I use them sometimes for testing hardware.

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graywolf0026@reddit

Ah Maxtor.

With a failure rate so damn high, I would vehemently refuse to build a machine where the client wanted one.

Cause every time someone in the shop did? It would be back within 6 months due to failure.

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timinks2@reddit

I had several maxtor drives. They were pretty good. Anymore I stick with western digital.

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Cwc2413@reddit

The ones I installed never had issues. I still have a few around somewhere.

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aplayer_v1@reddit

mine is still running for 20+ years, only the os is in it but, can't argue with old reliable

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furruck@reddit

Oh man my 120GB diamond max had such a catastrophic failure six months into ownership it even took out my boards ide controller.

I’m still not happy about it 20yrs later 😂

That was the 3rd Maxtor drive I had that failed and I never bought anything else from them again.

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Careless-Evidence-77@reddit

Bigfoots for the win /s

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Merlin80@reddit

Loud and hot drives but relative cheap..

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Tony-Angelino@reddit

Maxtor the most popular brand? When? We used to call it Kenny (from the South Park) because it died in almost every episode. The only good thing out of their house were rebranded Quantums after the takeover.

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IllusionXXI@reddit

These drives have whiney bearings, I did not really like them. I was big fan of Quantum Fireballs, I had many Fireball CX drives, which failed one after another. Maxtor put their name on the Quantum drives when the 2 companies merged. Was this perhaps why Maxtor I'm 2006? I never owned any Seagate drives before the 7200.10. Then came the dreaded 7200.11 failures..

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SquirrelWatchin@reddit

Nice. I have several of these that still work after ages of service, plus a 40g variant brand new, still sealed in the static bag, with all of the paperwork inside the original box that. I found someone selling it for $20 last year and couldn't pass it up.

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lrosa@reddit

I have destroyed the last one I had last year

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failtuna@reddit

I have 250gb maxtor that I pulled out of a dead modded-Xbox years ago, keep meaning to see what's on it.

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crc_73@reddit

https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox:XCAT/en

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MadShadowX@reddit

School I went to the Maxtors Died left and right. So Quantum became the brand to have for HDD's
Seagates also has their on and off patches of failures vs successes in my experience.

Also haven an old Samsung Mechanical which was the smoothest drive I ever owned.

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PCMasterX@reddit (OP)

I had the opposite experience… You have to take into account that Quantum is actually Maxtor... Maxtor acquired Quantum Corporation's hard disk drive (HDD) business in a $1.3 billion deal announced in October 2000 ...

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MadShadowX@reddit

Maybe but they probably still used Quantum Manufacture procedures for that brand at least till some time.

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mtest001@reddit

Not sure why but these drives had a terrible reputation of being slow and unreliable. Never owned one myself so I cannot tell.

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PCMasterX@reddit (OP)

When a product sells a lot, it's logical that there will be more complaints...

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ChristopherFiss@reddit

Maxtor was the reason I began to invest in RAID.

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DeepDayze@reddit

I once had 3 of those same exact drives an they were pretty solid for me and still have one made in 2001 that still works