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MAXTOR
Hard
disc drive manufacturers Maxtor make hard disc drives which they
are so confident about that some of the drives come with a
manufacturer's guarantee.
This means
that the chance of data loss is
considered so unlikely that if it happens they'll swap the drive
new-for-old. Note: This does not mean you'll get the data back!
For that you need data
recovery specialists such as Kroll Ontrack and Xytron (who have
already recovered data from Maxtor drives for me!). See How I Got My Data
Back and Another story of
data recovery. But for a company
to put a guarantee on a drive is pretty good, and in the case of
Maxtor they guaranteed the drive would be good for three years
regardless of where the drive had been bought.
Maxtor
don't guarantee the drive if you open it up on your dinner table,
by the way, but they are happy if technical experts in a clean
room
open it up
in laboratory conditions, so if you get Ontrack on the
data recovery job then Maxtor will still respect the guarantee.
My
Maxtor D540X 60Gb disc
drive had been around for over two years but had not quite
reached three years when the guarantee would have run out.
Admittedly I had to pay for the shipping to get the old drive
sent to Maxtor, but when the replacement drive arrived, I was
well chuffed to find that as well as it being a good replacement
drive, it was a 120Gb drive! Twice the size of the original!
There aren't many financial
investments than can double in size in two and a half years. So,
WELL DONE to Maxtor!
If
you want to visit Maxtor's website it's http://www.maxtor.com , whereas
here there are also some other hard disc drive related pages
including:
Hard Disc Drive
manufacturers
Maxtor D540X circuit
board for sale
Data recovery - how
to get your data back
Kroll Ontrack Data
recovery services
ESS Data Recovery
Maxtor OneTouch 200Gb
portable hard disc drive
Xytron the practical
data rescue company
My own story of data
recovery - in 2004
My own story of data
recovery 2 - in 2008
How to insure
yourself against future problems
Hard Disc Drive;
general category
Special
note: Hard disc drives are very reliable and almost never fail.
Especially good makes such as Maxtor. But, occasionally they do.