750GB External - Western Digital Versus Maxtor?

750GB External - Western Digital Versus Maxtor?

Written By Majorchamp on Feb. 15, 2008.

So I am looking at one of these monsters and wanted to get everyones opinion on which one will cause me less grief :) or should I say, which one is better quality...and maybe you have experience with one of them

The Western Digital, found here
The Maxtor, found here
The Seagate, found here

Thanks,
Bryan

Ozone42

Written Feb. 15, 2008 / Report /

Stay away from Maxtor.

Worst drives ever. That's from decades of experience. I had avoided them for about 8 years due to high failure rates. Well I finally decided to give them another chance and grabbed a small maxtor external to use for Time Machine. It failed in 5 months. Complete failure.

Be careful with Seagate as well, as they now own Maxtor. Their cheap drives are occasionally rebadged Maxtors. Before that acquisition, Seagate was my absolute favourite drive. Now I lean more towards WD, but wouldn't turn away a true Seagate drive.

Majorchamp

Written Feb. 15, 2008 / Report /

See, I have used Maxtor for several years and have not experienced the kind of failures you describe. I have a 250gb internal maxtor, a 120gb external maxtor, and a 300gb external maxtor for the last couple of years and haven't had them fail.

That is just my experience.

peroty

Written Feb. 15, 2008 / Report /

I knew Seagate bought Maxtor, but I thought I remembered a deal going down years ago where Maxtor and Western Digital got together in the consumer space.
I recall one selling their consumer HD business to the other, but my Google skills fail me (or perhaps it's my memory).