Item: Maxtor MaXLine Plus II 250GB
Rating: 1

soapbox68's review of Maxtor MaXLine Plus II 250GB

“Quickly run to your PC and rip off the side panel....”

☆☆☆☆☆

written by soapbox68 on 28/01/2006

Good Points
Very large hard drive for your family photo's and video's

Bad Points
Kiss goodbye to all your family photo's and video's

General Comments
Quickly run to your PC and rip off the side panel. Find your hard drive, and if it says Maxtor MaXLine Plus II, backup all your files! WELL DON'T JUST SIT THERE - RUN MAN RUN!!

PS. My original drive and its replacement only lasted about 8 and 12 months, so it has happened to me twice.

Value For Money
Ease of Set Up
6 - 12 Months

Time Hard Drive Owned

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Bertie's Response to soapbox68's Review

Written on: 28/01/2006

soapbox.......you must be storing all your pics in RAW to need a hard drive that big, but then, videos do take up a lot of room.
However, commiserations on your troubles and I hope you'll have no more.
I believe there is a program somewhere that can warn you of impending hard drive failure and although this computer is only months old, I'll try and get it as it seems to be very desirable from what you've related - and the other reviewer too.
What program I do have is Belarc Advisor and it advises me:-
Maxtor 6Y120L0 [Hard drive] (122.94 GB) -- drive 0, s/n Y3656GYE, rev YAR41BW0, SMART Status: Healthy.
As you see, although I have a Maxtor, it's a different model to yours and I'm breathing a little easier now especially after all the running I did!
Having said that, I'm going to put all my pics on CD when I work out how to do it. I have the necessary burner (sounds like a welding tool) and the Nero program.
Good luck with it all.

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Soapbox68's Response to soapbox68's Review

Written on: 31/01/2006

hi bertie.. make sure you get in the habit of burning your photos as soon as you put them on your pc. I use hd tune to check my hdd and it's great for giving you a idea of the drives health but both my maxtors failed with no warning, knocking noises from the drive and slowing down then blue screen of death. Seagate give a five year warranty with their drives you only get one or two from maxtor!?...."get them running shoes out!" cheers bertie ....soap

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