Maxtor DiamondMax 17 160 GB

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6G160P0 - Internal hard drive - 3.5" x 1/3H - 7200 rpm - 133 MBps - ATA-133 more

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DiamondMax 17 is the latest ATA disk drive from Maxtor and has been designed to provide reliability and value for home or office desktop PC users.





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Seemed good, until it failed on me.
A review by Dan39 on Maxtor DiamondMax 17 160 GB
August 25th, 2007


Author's product rating:   Maxtor DiamondMax 17 160 GB - rated by Dan39

Memory / capacity Satisfactory 
Reliability Poor 
Ease of Installation Satisfactory 
Speed Average 
Value For Money Satisfactory 

Advantages: warranty
Disadvantages: drive failed

Recommend to potential buyers: no 

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Had this drive for under a year and it has failed on me. I am trying to recover data, but its not looking too good. Takes a while for me to even get windows to recognize that there is another HDD connected(not using it as primary drive, just an extra for storage, luckily), and then it says it is not formatted with any file system, and cannot read it. I am positive it is a NTFS with like 140 GB of data on it. I didn't do anything for it to fail. I was just using it one day and it started to act funny, some files taking long to read, some going corrupt, and now it wont even work. Data recovery program says it is finding lots of files, so hopefully I will be able to recover most of them, but that doesn't really help since the other biggest drive I have is 80 GB... and then I have a couple 10 GB drives that are like 10 years old(but still working fine).

The drive is still under warranty and they say they will replace it on site, but I want to get the data off of it before I do that. Only problem is that I have no where to put the data while I get a new drive.

Only pro I see here is that they have a good warranty that goes for like 3 years. 
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Design Good 
Ease of use Satisfactory 
Instruction manual Needs improvement 
Manufacturer Support Satisfactory 

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