Title: Fast but died quickly
Product review: I purchased 2 of these drives for my ATA 133 array. They were speedy, I will grant Maxtor that, but crashed several times resulting in data lost, system rebuilds and so on. Anyway after the 2nd crash I got smart and moved my important files over to an old Western Digital drive I've had for almost 4 years now. Good thing too because not long after one of the two disks in the array (stripped not mirrored) completely died with no chance at recovery (would not even register with Maxtor's disk utilities). Thank god all a lost were some unimportant mp3s and the such. Anyway, you would expect more than 10 months on a Home PC disk drive. ATA 133 is nice, but reliabilty outwieghs the (small) bump in speed anytime.
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