Maxtor DiamondMax 300GB 7200RPM 16MB SATA/150 Hard Drive

I bought this drive in December and it functioned great. One day it just stopped working; The disk stopped spinning. I tried different power supplies and different cables, nothing worked. It was a great drive when it did work, but I don't recommend buying it.

Seagate had a good reputation before, but now I would rather stay away from seagate or maxtor. In the last two years, five hard drivers have failed (including this one), all of them are seagate or maxtor.

I have never had a hard drive failure in 15+ years of owning computers. My first two Maxtor drives I buy ... both fail within months of purchase. I thought I could save a few bucks by buying maxtor ... bad decision. I'll stick with Seagate or Western Digital from now on.I even tried running the maxtor PowerMax diagnostic utility, which crashed when I tried to run it. Nice diagnosis :)

I purchased and installed this drive. It failed shortly afterwards. It made a whining noise and finally the OS failed to recognize it.I obtained an RMA and returned the drive to Maxtor. Nearly 3 weeks later, and they will not ship another drive because they have no replacement drives available.The drive ran great during the short period before it failed, but I cannot recommend it due to poor reliability and no product support.