Maxtor MaXLine Plus II 250GB

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Guest

29 February 2008, 00:05

Ease of Set Up

Lost Two Drives Myself Too. Lost 10 Years Of Photo

Lost two drives myself too. Lost 10 years of photos and letters and other very important stuff. Entirely my fault, kept putting off backing my stuff up. Don't need to back it up now.

DO NOT BUY Maxtor MaXLine Plus II 250 GB.

soapbox68

28 January 2006, 00:30

Value For Money

Ease of Set Up

Quickly Run To Your Pc And Rip Off The Side Panel.

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.

soapbox68

31 January 2006, 19:46

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

Bertie

28 January 2006, 11:12

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.

matthew pooley