1/18 Western Digital vs. Maxtor, round one. I have 2 drives, a Maxtor
250G and a WD 200G. Both have been running for a while since
this summer, and out of curiousity I checked out their warranties.
WD has a 3 year warranty while Maxtor only has a 1 year warranty.
Is there anything I can conclude about the reliability,
availability, and serviceability of the two drives?
\_ Most manufacturers switched to 1 year warranty on most of their
ATA drives last year. WD kept the 3yr warranty on their 8MB cache
models. So I doubt you can make any assumptions based on the
warranty period. But there appears to be a big difference in
reliability between 200GB and 250GB drives that's common on pretty
much all of the manufacturers, which 300GB drives failing more than
any others. Based on that, I'd say your Maxtor 250GB would be more
likely to prematurely fail. I also had to replace 2 Maxtor 250GB
drives in one of our ATA raid systems just last week, whereas I've
yet to replace any of the drives on the same ATA raid system that
has WD drives. But the WD one is newer, so nothing can be concluded
from that either.
\_ All drives fail it's a matter of luck. Ive had all types. IBM
Seagate, Maxtor, WD, Hitachi, etc.. I would suggest going with
the manufacturer that has the best warranty. that's why I've stuck
to only Seagate drives now since they have 5yr warranty.
\_ As the former owner of 3 Maxtor drives (2 120 GB and 1 250 GB)
drive, my experience was that Maxtor had really poor reliability
and frequently failed before the 1 yr warranty was up. I switched
to WD and Seagate and haven't noticed any problems to date (1yr +). |
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