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Reviews for Maxtor DiamondMaxD540XHardDrive-80GB-5400rpm-Internal

MPN: 4D080H4

$23.00 - $119.26

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By member: pentium4forever - Aug 16, 2004

Maxtor DiamondMaxD540XHardDrive-80GB-5400rpm-Internal

Strengths: Holds lots of space, runs well. I paid $67 off an EBay auction for it so that was an unbeatable deal!

Weakness: Seems a little loud, only operates at 5400RPM not 7200RPM.

I got this drive brand new off an EBay auction about 2 years ago. It works fine, hasn't died yet. Maybe I should have reviewed it after it died but oh well. It runs fine and I have it in Antec Hard drive enclosure which makes it nice, I can easily pull it out and makes things so much easier and more convienient.

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By member: WagnerT - Feb 12, 2007

Don't buy

Strengths: None.

Weakness: It has a serious BUG.

I have one of these and I want to alert everyone who want to buy disks from MAXTOR. There's a situation that crashes the control board: if you repartition this hard disk something get corrupted in the embedded microcontroller and you have to reflash it for yourself - a commercial product to fix it costs the bargain of U$ 500.00.

No problem at all, its not uncommon companies release products with some bugs, but the serious thing: MAXTOR does not get responsible if the warranty outdates. I'm very frustrated because it's an intrinsic failure in the product and every serious company should refund customers.

Check yourself: search for ROMULUS firmware" (without the quotes) in any search engine and read the results - ROMULUS is the project name, so there must be other models with that failure.

So, my advice to protect other consumers: DON'T BUY MAXTOR DISKS -- one star because I can't give minus five.

Me and others have lost data in this model.

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By member: kamjari - Jul 4, 2003

Maxtor DiamondMaxD540XHardDrive-80GB-5400rpm-Internal

Strengths: NONE

Weakness: SLOW TO RECOVER, STOP FUNCTIONING SUDDENLY CAUSING ALL OUR DATA TO BE LOST

SO FAR AND AFTER TWO WEEKS WE DID NOT RECEIVE ACKNOLEDGMENT FOR OUR 3 EMAILS SENT DURING THIS PERIOD
AS THE UNIT STILL UNDER GARANTEE WE WISH TO BE CONTACTED AND REPLACEMENT HAS BEEN FORWARD TO US AS PER ADDRESS SUPPLIED BY EMAILS
WE ARE DIAPPOINTED AND LET DOWN BY THIS PRODUCT

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