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** Pulled from my old blog - original post date Mon 23 of May, 2005 **

Over the past few years, I had purchased several Maxtor drives for various purposes. A couple of weeks ago, the very last one of them bit the dust.

The thing to note here is that they're all well under 5 years old, and of course, hard drives really aren't cheap, especially considering I seem to have to buy a few each year to replace duds.

Well, I am living & learning. See, I stopped buying Maxtor some time last year, because of the problems I've had with them. I've RMA'ed Maxtor drives (to have them returned and fail not long after), and the best example was this drive that died very recently. The drive was *manufactured* Sep. 28, 2003. So it's impossible for me to have owned this drive even two years. Hell, it's barely possible I've had it a year and a half.

So, I checked Maxtor's site for the RMA-ability of the drive... The warranty expired in June, 2004.

Way to go, Maxtor... you basically fully acknowledge that your product is garbage and wouldn't even warrant it for a *single year*.

That's *sad*, considering I've got a couple of Quantum 2 & 6GB drives that are still going strong, and they're well over 5 years old. Too bad Maxtor bought them - not sure what the point of that was... can't say Maxtor got any better because of it.

So, here's the deal - don't buy Maxtor products - unless you enjoy throwing your money away.

Now Seagate, here's a company that really stands behind it's product... every drive is warranted for at least 5 years... apparently they believe they put out a fairly good product, and will stand behind the product... all for the same price as a Maxtor. Hmm.

So what the hell am I supposed to do with this complete waste of raw metallic materials that has a Maxtor label on it? Jeez... what a *waste*.