Forget thermite, here's Maxtor!

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My 200GB Maxtor decided that it loved my nice big shiney black chassis and felt that melting itself to the drive bay wouald be a new kinky bondage technique.

So I shut down, and man, 10 mins after power off I couldn't touch that drive without a cloth to remove it.

After that, my "fan only" molex plugs on my PSU do not seem to work, going to fiddle later..

I know hard drives get rather warm these days, but sheesh, most of the Maxtor's I've used are insane!
 
Yea maxtor is like buying hardware from PEP stores...
 
LOL no photos, it didn't melt, but nearly lol.

All my major drives are Seagate, I ended up with the Maxtor because Rectron gave me the wrong drive in error (after waiting for a while) and I needed the drive urgently as my stuff was backed up on a less-than-savory drive. Sucks.

but my 320gb and 250gb SATA Seagates are winners.
 
I used to have a 120GB maxtor and now have a 320gb seagate. Burning a DVD was a waste of time, as the buffer kept on dipping. Seagate it is as smooth as anything.

Also could not play Farcry on the maxtor yet I can on the seagate.
 
They should be getting better this year tho. If I'm not mistaken Seagate bought them out, or something like that.

I'm happy to say that all my drives are Seagate. The only time I'd buy different would be to get the new WD 74GB Raptor now with 16MB cache. :)
 
The last weedy I had was an old 4gb which died soon after from mechanical defects, I had it replaced with a 6GB, same story, chunk chunk chunk, I've never bought Weedy's again.

I assume they're better nowdays?
 
Toxin said:
They should be getting better this year tho. If I'm not mistaken Seagate bought them out, or something like that.

I'm happy to say that all my drives are Seagate. The only time I'd buy different would be to get the new WD 74GB Raptor now with 16MB cache. :)
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Yeah - they bought Maxtor out late 2005/early 2006.
 
n1hilist said:
My 200GB Maxtor decided that it loved my nice big shiney black chassis and felt that melting itself to the drive bay wouald be a new kinky bondage technique.

So I shut down, and man, 10 mins after power off I couldn't touch that drive without a cloth to remove it.

After that, my "fan only" molex plugs on my PSU do not seem to work, going to fiddle later..

I know hard drives get rather warm these days, but sheesh, most of the Maxtor's I've used are insane!
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:eek: :eek:

That's just insane!!! :eek:
 
Yeah, the drive has one bad block and is out of warranty so I bought a USB housing for it... if it still works I'll take my chances.

Expect photos of molten alluminium & maxtortion.

hmmz.. or I could glue some heatsinks all over the housing and make something overkill and pretty.

The_Librarian said:
:eek: :eek:

That's just insane!!! :eek:
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n1hilist said:
Yeah, the drive has one bad block and is out of warranty so I bought a USB housing for it... if it still works I'll take my chances.

Expect photos of molten alluminium & maxtortion.

hmmz.. or I could glue some heatsinks all over the housing and make something overkill and pretty.
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Post some pics of this working contraption for our enjoyment :D:D:D:D
 
OOOK! (Sorry, I'm assuming you're a Pratchett fan)

Fun .. take an old hard drive, open it up and plug it in and run a scandisk or anything like that, get that motor going.. take an old screwdriver or sharp peice of metal and hold it against the platter and listen to it screeeaaaam!

Trent Reznor might even come to sample it.

The_Librarian said:
Post some pics of this working contraption for our enjoyment :D:D:D:D
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