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The MaXLine and DiamondMax 10/11 series have gotten uniformly very positive reviews over the past couple of years. Haven't had a lick of trouble with the two Maxtors in my own G5 tower. I bought a couple of Western Digital WD5000KS drives for rotating backups, but they won't work internally on the G5's SATA bus, whereas all reports I've read about the MaXLine Pro 500s is that they work no problem. I'll be picking up one or two of them at some point.
I too avoided Maxtor for a number of years, but they've rehabilitated their rep AFAIC.
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We had pretty much been staying clear of Maxtor since 2004 and throughout 2005. Started working with certain model Maxtors in 2006 (not in any solutions) and had good success. This 7H500F0 model above is extremely good. It's an enterprise class (ultra high-reliability for mission critical level use) drive with what was a Maxtor 5yr Warranty and is now Seagate backed... On the Maxtor side of the fence, only their highest end drives had the 5yr Warranty.
Recently XLR8YourMac.com covered another glowing review of this drive by a user group.
Great drive - and something I have not said recently about a Maxtor. It's better than the Seagate 500GB 7200.10 SATA IMHO and it's actually being transitioned into use with our solutions that use 500GB SATA.
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Ok Larry, you convinced me. I placed the order with OWC. This one's for photos and music so if it dies like so many earlier ones, they'll get it back.
