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58% OFF Reviews for Maxtor MaXLine Plus II 250 GB Internal Hard Drive - 1 PackSATA/150 - 7200 rpm - 8 MB Buffer - 3.5" - MPN: 7Y250M0
$54.00 - $128.22
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daudo
- May 10, 2009
Do not buy this driveStrengths: Just like any other manufacturing types Weakness: not reliable Once you lose your data, you'll know how painful it is. 100% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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snookie51
- Mar 22, 2008
Maxtor 250 GB SATA DrivesStrengths: Quiet and fast Weakness: Prone to failure I have been using this harddisk primarily for storing video data for about a year. On and off, it gives clicking sounds which often lead to corrupted data on the disk. Every time this occurs, the harddisk will also slow down tremendously. Then the only way to get the harddisk back to its normal speed is to uninstall and reinstall the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller drivers. 100% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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montini1166
- Feb 4, 2005
Maxtor MaXLine Plus II 250 GB Internal Hard Drive -...Strengths: High storage capacity, Maxtor quality and value, good price per gig ratio. Weakness: Windows 2000 won't recognize SATA drives. This is a good drive but Windows 2000 won't recognize SATA drives. It would be nice if drive manufactures like Maxtor would provide drivers to solve this problem; but Microsoft SHOULD provide drivers to support new technologies like SATA drives. I was able to test the drive using a beta version of Windows XP Pro 64 bit edition. But even here, Windows will NOT install on a SATA drive without a convoluted process. 78% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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godeals
- Jan 7, 2006
Good speedy affordable Hard DriveStrengths: Fast transfer speeds, Large storage capacity, Good warranty Weakness: Operating system must be able to support larger capacity Hard Drives. System must have support for SATA interface. The hard drive works well in a RAID 1 setup with a SATA compatible motherboard. The read access is quick and system backup is quick as well. 50% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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codemann8
- Sep 27, 2006
MaXLine Plus II 250GB SATA-150 DriveStrengths: very fast, very quiet Weakness: none I've always been a fan of Western Digital until I bought this hard drive. It's a lot more quieter than a WD Drive. Also, using Maxtor's SATA-150 technology, it allows me to transfer files at a much higher speed than ever before. 50% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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kaju27
- Jan 10, 2006
Great buyStrengths: It gets a good hard drive for the money. 5 year warrentee is well worth it Weakness: I've had bad experiences with Maxtor but thats when they had a 1 year warrentee Great buy. I am a die hard Western Digital fan but for this price you cant beat it. I had a maxtor hard drive before but didnt have much luck with them but hopefully my luck will change for the better with a 5 year warrentee 40% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? TopAdvertisement  
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Not reliable
Strengths: High capacity, Fast access time.
Weakness: Poor reliability
I purchased 4 of these drives unfortunately from a dealer that took the 3 year warranty away and offered only 1 year. So far one failed in the first year and was replaced. Shortly after the first year another one failed. Now I have a third out of four that is starting to show the signs of the same type of failure coming up. These failures once they happen they are 100% inaccessible so the data is 100% lost. It starts with an occasional click noise and some write errors, then within a few days they start clicking and are rendered inoperable. Maxtor doesn't appear to want to do anything about it because the warranty was lifted. If I built any hardware that showed a failure rate of greater than 10% I would definitely take steps to prevent those numbers of ever reaching the light of day. The Maxtor customer service folks don't recognize the damage that can cause to a reputation and choose not to honor any warranty so I hope I can warn as many people as possible that this drive is trouble. Not only do I have a 75% complete failure rate with this drive, I'm left with 2 pieces of hazardous waste and much lost data to show for my purchase. Don't forget to back up your data often if you own one of these.
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