Decaflon Thread: 750GB External - Western Digital Versus Maxtor?

750GB External - Western Digital Versus Maxtor?

animejulie — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:21:36

I have a 250gb Maxtor and hate it. I have 2 WD My Book drives and love them.

750GB External - Western Digital Versus Maxtor?

Tony — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:33:25

I have the 1TB version of the WD and it purrs like a kitten. No problems so far! (knock on Macbook)

750GB External - Western Digital Versus Maxtor?

peroty — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:05:04

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).

750GB External - Western Digital Versus Maxtor?

Majorchamp — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:09:03

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.

750GB External - Western Digital Versus Maxtor?

Ozone42 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:06:32

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.

750GB External - Western Digital Versus Maxtor?

Majorchamp — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:01:09

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