Maxtor sucks. EVERY hard drive I have bought from them doesn't work anymore and the last one caught fire, almost burning my room down. I didn't even bother sending it in for a new one to avoid future problems.
I did some research and apparently EVERY single person (that I spoke to) who has had problems with there HDD had a Maxtor. There was not one person who complained about the Western Digital. Some even had them for up to 10 yrs with out problems.
Does anyone know why the **** Maxtor is so unreliable?
And they have balls to claim that they are the leaders in hdd technology... They should be selling there HDDs as explosives.