I’ve had two Maxtor 60 GB (Model 6Y060L0) hard drives fail within 4 week of each other. I was not able to recover any of the data. (Not a huge deal, as it was mostly employees’ personal type stuff and/or files they didn’t save to the servers.) I have quite a few more of these drives currently in use. Are these drives a time-bomb waiting to go off and destroy all the data they hold, I’m beginning to ask myself?
I’m inclined to replace them all before they fail. But will they fail if I don’t? I have six out of the original eight still in use — a 25 percent failure rate. They are all two years old, give or take.
What’s the best drive out there right now? What’s the worst?
