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Maxtor drive problems??
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Posted by: tdriedger

I upgraded my standalone Phillips TiVo early last year. I copied the original drive to a 20GB Maxtor DiamondMax D740X and added an additional 80GB Maxtor DiamondMax D740X. Everything ran fine for about 8 months. Then the stuttering and freezing started! Bad drive from everything I have read around here. The original drive functions fine in the unit. I ran PowerMAX on the two drives and the 20GB returned and error. Sent it back to Maxtor, got a replacement, same stuttering and freezing. At this point I restored the original drive to the new 20GB and the existing 80GB and tried running them each alone. Both drives have problems with freezing. Three bad drives?? Yesterday I pulled an 80GB Western Digital drive out of my PC and tried it in the TiVO, it seems to be running fine.

Is there a problem using DiamondMax Plus D740X drives in the TiVO?

Should I exchange both drives with Maxtor?

Any other suggestions?

Posted by: Montaño

I also added the Maxtor 80GB drive to my TiVo about 8 months ago, but I have not had any problems. In fact I added the Maxtor drive to both of my TiVo's, and they are both still purring :)

Were the drives clean or did you use the MaxBlast software on them??

Posted by: cclaunch

Added an OEM Maxtor 120GB drive to my DSR6000, began getting stutters about two days later and with a week it was basically unusable due to the frequent stutters, hangs and pixelation.

Now running a WD 120GB drive with no problems at all.

Still waiting for the vendor to issue an RMA to replace this. Beginning to suspect they will not respond, at which point I will publicize the vendor name so that others do not run afoul of them.

Posted by: tdriedger

I did not use MaxBlast to install the drives.

Posted by: Mysteryman

I added a new Maxtor 80GB to a friends Tivo. Within a week it suttered and died. It would just reboot at the "almost there" grey screen.

I took it out. Low leveled it, loaded his sony image back and it lasted 3 days before it died. It wouldn't even low level afterwards. I had it replaced under warranty and dropped the drive in yesterday. Time will tell if this one will stay up.

I am boycotting WD, Seagate, and Maxtor now for going to 1 year warranties. I have had to replace too many drives in that 2nd and 3rd year.

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