Wow after all this time my first/. post. For all of you who find it hard to believe that a Maxtor hard drive can burn on its own. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHn_6FJr0kg I tried to get Maxtor to replace this drive under warranty years ago. The rep laughed and said it wasn't possible for the drive to catch on fire. "must of been a power surge or bad wiring inside my PC." Of course they didn't replace it. So here's the story... I woke up at 3:33am and saw a strange orange glow in my PC(No I don't have neon lights in my PC). Yes I sleep with my PC on...who doesnt? Thinking my pc was had opened up a gateway to hell inside itself. (No Diablo 2 was not running at the time.) I opened up the case and saw my western digital slave HD being grilled by the Maxtor above it. Turned off the machine. Pulled the HD out and of course after inspecting the HD I was curious if it would still run. Replugged it back in decided to use my digicam to record so I turned the PC on and literally poof up in flames again. Though no Western Digital HD to grill this time. And yes the Western Digital Hard Drive survived the flames coming out the A$$ of the Maxtor. In Maxtor's defense that was the only HD i've ever had go bad from them. But since they didn't honor their warranty... they lost a customer. Yeah I can talk about how dangerous this is if you leave your pc running at home and it catches fire with no one home or if you fall asleep and it catches your house on fire... Personally I find the experience of feeling the flames near your feet while battling it out in hell in Doom3 makes for a much more immersive experience than a 7.1 dts surround system or 100 foot projected screen. New marketing campaign from Maxtor...We'll burn your "backups" faster than the MPAA can burn your rights.
Ahemm cough cough hate to beark the news to you Sony if you are reading this... This is the same model hard drive that you used in your Final Fantasy 11 online bundles for your PS2. But who knows maybe you'll get lucky and the drive won't catch the ps2 on fire while a bunch of wannabes are playing in the back of their parents pimped out Escalade. Hey how many of those did you sell? 3? that won't be a bad recall.
So what lesson did we learn from today's G.I Joe PSA? Teach your PC to stop drop and roll. And use Maxtor if you want to see your data go up in flames or use Western Digital to never hear from your data again.
Okay lets see the/. effect take down youtube and lets see all you moviemakers edit this movie into a fight scene against the star wars kid.
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Wow after all this time my first /. post. For all of you who find it hard to believe that a Maxtor hard drive can burn on its own. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHn_6FJr0kg I tried to get Maxtor to replace this drive under warranty years ago. The rep laughed and said it wasn't possible for the drive to catch on fire. "must of been a power surge or bad wiring inside my PC." Of course they didn't replace it. So here's the story... I woke up at 3:33am and saw a strange orange glow in my PC(No I don't have neon lights in my PC). Yes I sleep with my PC on...who doesnt? Thinking my pc was had opened up a gateway to hell inside itself. (No Diablo 2 was not running at the time.) I opened up the case and saw my western digital slave HD being grilled by the Maxtor above it. Turned off the machine. Pulled the HD out and of course after inspecting the HD I was curious if it would still run. Replugged it back in decided to use my digicam to record so I turned the PC on and literally poof up in flames again. Though no Western Digital HD to grill this time. And yes the Western Digital Hard Drive survived the flames coming out the A$$ of the Maxtor. In Maxtor's defense that was the only HD i've ever had go bad from them. But since they didn't honor their warranty... they lost a customer. Yeah I can talk about how dangerous this is if you leave your pc running at home and it catches fire with no one home or if you fall asleep and it catches your house on fire... Personally I find the experience of feeling the flames near your feet while battling it out in hell in Doom3 makes for a much more immersive experience than a 7.1 dts surround system or 100 foot projected screen. New marketing campaign from Maxtor...We'll burn your "backups" faster than the MPAA can burn your rights.
Ahemm cough cough hate to beark the news to you Sony if you are reading this... This is the same model hard drive that you used in your Final Fantasy 11 online bundles for your PS2. But who knows maybe you'll get lucky and the drive won't catch the ps2 on fire while a bunch of wannabes are playing in the back of their parents pimped out Escalade. Hey how many of those did you sell? 3? that won't be a bad recall.
So what lesson did we learn from today's G.I Joe PSA? Teach your PC to stop drop and roll. And use Maxtor if you want to see your data go up in flames or use Western Digital to never hear from your data again.
Okay lets see the /. effect take down youtube and lets see all you moviemakers edit this movie into a fight scene against the star wars kid.