Maxtor 500GB MaxLine Pro 500 7200RPM SATAII w/ 16MB Cache any good ?

[StoneColdWhat]

A while ago when the Maxtor drives was crashing left and right, that left a bad impression on my for maxtor, but this has a pretty good price for it, does anyone have any experiences with this ?

[Werder]

I guess you are buying a Seagate drive... today Maxtor drives are re-branded Seagate drives (Maxtor doesn't exist anymore as a HDD manufacturer). A week or two ago I bought a 500GB PATA/16M Seagate drive for $99. So far so good, the only complaint I have that the HDD gets really hot, the fan of the enclosure is on high all the time - I use it as a media drive in the living room, so it is a little anoying. The same enclosure with a 500GB Hitachi drive the fan stays on low - and quiet - even for extended periods.

[redwudz]

Not that particular model, but I have used several smaller ones, 200 and 160 MB Maxtor SATA drives. My experience with Maxtor's seems to depend on the models and where they are made. I had a couple IDEs that ran so hot they would burn your fingers. They didn't last long. But again, one in the same size is still going strong two years later.

I would go for a drive that has a longer warranty. That's about the best you can do. Even then, it's always a gamble, even with other brands than Maxtor. I've got 7 Maxtor 320GB IDE drives running in a video server presently with no problems going on a year.

[budz]

As redwudz suggested get a 500gb SATA II hard drive with a longer warranty. WESTERN DIGITAL has one with a 5 year warranty. The model numbers with the "RE" have the 5 year warranty. SEAGATE also has a 5 year warranty for their 500gb SATA II hard drive as well.

WESTERN DIGITAL:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136032

SEAGATE:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148136

[KBeee]

The Western Digital RE drives are really meant for Raid setups.
Forgive me any stupid mistakes, but I'm trawling through a fuzzy memory here...
The RE stands for something like Raid Enhanced, and the drives forego 1 stage of error checking to enhance their speed (the error checking is done by the Raid controller anyway, so leaving it off the HDD doesn't really matter). But if you aren't running a RAID array, your data is a little more vulnerable on a WD RE than on a normal WD SE. Also Western Digital RE2 WD5000YS needed a firmware update, cos even on RAID setups they were sometimes losing data by disappearing from the RAID array all by themselves (I've got 4 of the beasts running here, and flashing the firmware was a PITA).
Of course, newly made WD RE YS drives will already have the new firmware, but if you end up with old stock you could have problems.