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McX Maxstretch.com 135 Posts 1/05	Posted - Jun 27 2005 : 6:54PM Just purchase one of these in the 300GB firewire/USB varieties. Even though it is set to go into power saving mode with 5 minutes of no use, it often stays in the active mode much longer and runs very hot even though the drive is not in use. There was no info in the knowledge base about this topic. I would rather exchange the drive now than lose data later on... Anyone have any experience with this. Thanx!! Peace out... McX [Link]
JimGunn Member Where The Teens Are 173 Posts 1/02	Posted - Jun 28 2005 : 7:25PM I own five Maxtor One-Touch external hd's that I use for video editing daily for over a year and one brand new Maxtor One-Touch II external hd that is working great so far. Jim Gunn Productions [Link]
jamesn Senior Member Cambridge, MA 750 Posts 1/04	Posted - Jul 19 2005 : 4:45AM i'd avoid this drive because it's maxtor and because the onetouch enclosures don't have adequate cooling. if you've already bought it, make sure it's in a place where it'll stay cool and you're not blocking any holes it breathes through. search storagereview.com for "maxtor failure". [Link]
JimGunn Member Where The Teens Are 173 Posts 1/02	Posted - Jul 20 2005 : 12:32AM jamesn wrote: i'd avoid this drive because it's maxtor and because the onetouch enclosures don't have adequate cooling. if you've already bought it, make sure it's in a place where it'll stay cool and you're not blocking any holes it breathes through. search storagereview.com for "maxtor failure". Click to expand For what it is worth, I have five Maxtor One Touch drives that have been getting heavy use with daily video editing for the last couple of years and one Maxtor One Touch II drive that has been gettting use for a few months now, and I haven't head any problems, thankfully. I am sure that you could find a forum where someone is ranting about any given brand of drive. I keep them on a flat desk so even if they get warm to the touch, they have adaquate cooling I guess. Jim Gunn Productions [Link]
Jeff @ IAFD Webmaster IAFD.COM 931 Posts 6/00	Posted - Jul 20 2005 : 12:39AM I've had a client lose a Series I unit -- happily Ontrack was able to work their magic and all was not lost. But they did mention the "running hot" issue, and I've now been keeping my Series I well-ventilated; the Series II I got has been running a little cooler, even tho it seems like it has less ventilation... [Link]

McX Maxstretch.com 135 Posts 1/05	Posted - Jul 20 2005 : 2:15AM Thanks for the feedback. I've decided to roll the dice and finish editing on the drive and see what happens. The raw footage is still archived on Mini DV in case the drive crashes. Even though it is well ventilated, it just seems to run very hot, even when I'm not editing. I'll keep everyone posted. Again, thank you for your help. Peace out... McX [Link]
jamesn Senior Member Cambridge, MA 750 Posts 1/04	Posted - Jul 20 2005 : 3:55AM if you want numbers, i can give you them right now. 4.5% of maxtor drives come back to them under warranty, 1.5% for western dig. and 2.2% for seagate according to warrantyweek.com which is a fun resource to use as a consumer because you'll never see it otherwise. that's signifigant enough a difference between competing manufacturers to make me stay away from them-storagereview.com is pretty much the bible for the subject. it's a little boring and technical when the data-recovery guys argue with the maxtor/wd/etc. employees, but their reliability database is useful and you tend to hear which drives are kosher and which are the next deathstar there first. the latest is to avoid the new 7200.8 300gb, the rest of the capacities don't have whatever issue it's been failing because of [Link]
Tommi Rose Fan Member 161 Posts 4/03	Posted - Jul 20 2005 : 10:49PM jamesn wrote: if you want numbers, i can give you them right now. 4.5% of maxtor drives come back to them under warranty, 1.5% for western dig. and 2.2% for seagate according to warrantyweek.com which is a fun resource to use as a consumer because you'll never see it otherwise. that's signifigant enough a difference between competing manufacturers to make me stay away from them-storagereview.com is pretty much the bible for the subject. it's a little boring and technical when the data-recovery guys argue with the maxtor/wd/etc. employees, but their reliability database is useful and you tend to hear which drives are kosher and which are the next deathstar there first. the latest is to avoid the new 7200.8 300gb, the rest of the capacities don't have whatever issue it's been failing because of Click to expand I am going to have to say i agree with you, maxtor drives suck and trust me i know i do buy more than anyone in canada. anyways all the drives that personally failed on me were maxtor, i dont buy them if they were half the price. and just so u know some of the new drives are coming to shelf with 90 days maf. warranty which is lame. [Link]
McX Maxstretch.com 135 Posts 1/05	Posted - Oct 27 2007 : 2:00PM Okay, I purchased the device in June of 2005, here we are in October of 2007 and the drive has kicked the shitter. I think I am pretty much screwed on the device. I don't have anything on there that was too important as valuable stuff was always backed up to optical media just in case something like this occurred. I wish I had listened Jamesn and Tommi Rose Fan and avoided this product. Just an irritating inconvenience. Anyone out there be careful because Seagate has purchased Maxtor and is probably marketing the same crappy product under a different brand. Peace out... McX [Link]
Dither Persona non grata I love America 650 Posts 8/05	Posted - Oct 28 2007 : 3:10PM I once had the same HD and it broke down too. I wouldn't rely on an external HD for backup of valuable material, burning to disc or RAID mirroring is for this a necessity. I've had three hard drive failures in the last two years. [Link]

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