Seagate DiamondMax® Plus 9 120 GB ATA-133 Hard Drive

Pros: Quiet, easy to install, quick delivery, 3 year warranty
Cons: None as of yet

Newegg.com is a great place to purchase computer hardware for cheap. Their service and delivery is impeccable. I recently completed a machine. An AX4SPE Max Motherboard: Intel 2.6 GB P4: Creative Labs Audigy 2: ATI Radeon AIW 9600 Pro: Plextor DVD ...

Pros: It lived through the 1 year warranty period.
Cons: Not by much.

Dead at 15 months. I purchased this drive for a system I built for my son just over a year ago. For the most part the drive performed trouble free.... through the 1 year warranty period. A week or so ago the system began to lockup and sometimes the ...

Pros: It is technically a hard drive.
Cons: It will die well before other drives. Don't waste your time and money.

Well, I had high hopes for the new "SATA" drive from Maxtor, the Diamond Max Plus 9. It died this morning after only a few months in my Dell E510. This was a backup drive. I'll put in for warranty replacement, and probably look for something else to back this up.

Well, I inserted the serial number in the online warranty service checker at Maxtor, and my drive is out of warranty. This drive is toast. Wonderful.

I usually write longer reviews, but this product isn't worth the time. Maxtor builds cheap drives that have a high failure rate. A vast majority will be disappointed with this product.

Pros: It was cheap
Cons: It failed after 6 months of lite use

I bought this drive as a database backup to a server. It worked fine until today. When I rebooted my server it came back up and the drive wasn't there. It's visible in Device Manager, with no warnings, but I can not mount it, format, or do anything with it. It's toast. I only had this for about 6 months. I'm not even I want a warranty replacement because I'm afraid a new one will fail just as fast. No more Maxtors for me.

Pros: Quiet, better-than-average performance.
Cons: Unreliable, and very short warranty period (1 year).

This weekend one of my two Maxtor SATA drives decided to give it up on me after only fifteen months of infrequent use (less than 10 hours/week). Unfortunately for me, I had configured the two SATA drives in a RAID-0 (striped) configuration, so when one of the drives went kaput, I lost everything on the 240GB combined disk.

The failure appears to be within the controller circuitry, not the disk platter-- the drive posts its failure immediately during the system POST, before the drives are accessed. Regardless, this is a major inconvenience, and considering that the drive has only a one year warranty, I have no recourse but to purchase another drive (which will *not* be a Maxtor!).

I've built several systems over the past decade using virtually every brand of hard drive there is. Prior to this, I've only had one other hard disk failure, which was the now-infamous IBM Deskstar hard drives, which made headlines because of their poor design. This is the one and only time I'll ever use Maxtor drives in any systems I build.

Pros: These are decent hard drives and good value
Cons: Individual hard drives' performance not consistent; noisy access

This S-ATA drive, for 150MB/s performance in terms of bandwidth not much faster than many UDMA-100 hard drives, which is not great considering the hype surrounding SATA, and the extra costs of SATA controllers on motherboards. Then again the prices are very close to those of the UDMA counterparts so you can't really complain. 40MB/s is hardly quick for even one drive. However, I have two of these in my computer, but they didn't work for long even in RAID 0 although they are identical. So they just run along side each other with no problems. One is louder than the other for some reason, and also notably slower than the other even though write caching is enabled on both. This seems confusing but overall they perform well. I personally would say that Maxtor is better in the UDMA-133 department, but this product is decent

Pros: very reliable, fast, and I would recommend to anyone
Cons: None, some noise when underload, but no reason why not to buy one

I bought this hard-drive just over a year ago. I payed an extra few pounds for a well known manufacture, and for a drive with good stats (8mb cache, 7200 rpm).
This drive has been used almost daily for over a year, with no errors or faults so far. My previous drive by a less well known manufacture lasted 6 months - so its worth the extra expense for a reliable drive.
Not only is this drive reliable, its fast. Using 'ultra' fast drive technology which runs the drive at ATA 133, combined with the drives 8mb cache, it really flies.
There is only one down-side to this drive, but it is insignificant compared with what your getting. When underload this drive can be abit noisey (heard many drives alot louder though)

Pros: Fast
Cons: Very Unreliable

I had this hard drive only 2 months before it failed completely. Thank god I keep my files on CD and not on the hard drive.

Pros: Fast (when it still works)
Cons: Many unhappy customers with unexpected total failures.

There's another separate chain of reviews on this hard drive; please refer to it as it contains many more reviews. In short form: This drive suffers from premature failure. Expect the unexpected, ie. total loss of data as your harddrive packs it in, unannounced.

Pros: Cheap
Cons: doesn't last.

Am now looking at a second near-dead MAxtor 120GB HDD. The first died after less than 3 months in the system. The second is a "refurbished to Maxtor specifications" drive that Maxtor sent as a replacement. It too is beginning to show the signs of impending death - slow operation, file errors, hanging up the controller.

The drive appears to have little, if any tolerance for faults. The first 120GB died while connected to a Maxtor-branded Promise Ultra133TX PCI controller. The second died as a slave drive on the primary motherboard controller.

The drives were both in a non-OC'd Athlon 2800XP running on an Abit NF7.

It'll be the last Maxtor I purchase.

Pros: They are cheap
Cons: They are cheap. 4 failures out of 16 machines in less than one year.

We have a computer lab with 16 Dells, each containing a Maxtor 6y120m0 drive. So far, in less than one year, we have lost 4 of these drives to total disk failure. Dell should seek other vendors.

Pros: Fast for the first 4-5 months.
Cons: Drive won't last. Performance degrades as long as the drives lives.

i had 3 of these and all the 3 drives failed within a year of light work! I won't definitely buy anoter Maxtor.