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Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y250L0 250GB Hard Drive

DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y250L0 250GB Hard Drive

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Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y250L0 250GB Hard Drive

  • Reviewed by: xyombie

    09-11-05

    Duration of ownership: 1 Years

    Strengths: At the time I purchased the drive, it had a lot of space (9/3/2004)

    Weaknesses:Runs very hot.Not reliable.Only 1 year warranty

    Overall Evaluation: At the time I purchased this drive (9/3/2004), 250Gb was a very large amount of disk space. Today, the largest drive on the market is double the space. The drive comes with 1 year warranty. Exactly 2 days prior to my warranty expiring, the hard drive crashed. Phone support is only M-F during normal business hours, but I was able to open an RMA up over the internet. I had to download the Maxtor PowerMax software (the MaxBlast download had powermax, but it didn't work, so I had to download the separate powermax cd). I then ran Maxtor's diagnostic on the drive which had an error code that allowed me to open the RMA at the maxtor web-site. It took about 6 days to receive the replacment drive in the mail. But the replacement drive was a refurbished drive of the same model. I know that my drive was exactly 363 days old. The refurbished drive had the original label underneath the new refurbished label that you can still read under a strong light. The original manufactures date on the refurbished drive was only 10 months ago. I would have to say that this drive is not reliable if I have seen two drives of the same model that didn't even last 1 year. My friend has the same drive, and he told me that the drive runs really hot, so he keeps a fan blowing on the drive at all times. Maybe the trick to extending the life of the drive is to keep a dedicated fan on it? Anyway, I would shy away from this particalur drive if possible.

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