Seagate DiamondMax Plus 9 (120 GB)

Pros: very reliable, fast, and I would recommend to anyone

Cons: None, some noise when underload, but no reason why not to buy one

Review: 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. ...

Pros: Quiet, easy to install, quick delivery, 3 year warranty

Cons: None as of yet

The Bottom Line: I think that buying any Maxtor hard drive is the right decision. This one is the quietest yet.

Review: 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: These are decent hard drives and good value

Cons: Individual hard drives' performance not consistent; noisy access

Review: 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 ...

Pros: It lived through the 1 year warranty period.

Cons: Not by much.

The Bottom Line: Do yourself a favor, don't buy this drive.

Review: 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.

Review: 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 ...

Pros: It was cheap

Cons: It failed after 6 months of lite use

Review: 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 ...

Pros: Quiet, better-than-average performance.

Cons: Unreliable, and very short warranty period (1 year).

Review: 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 ...

Pros: Fast

Cons: Very Unreliable

Review: 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 ...

Pros: Fast (when it still works)

Cons: Many unhappy customers with unexpected total failures.

Review: 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, ...

Pros: Cheap

Cons: doesn't last.

Review: 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 ...