The Maxtor MSS2
August 17th, 2007 | by Futt | 423 views
Yeah it’s a product review. No, it won’t be pretty, but it will be kinda short. The Maxtor MSS2 is a 1 terrabyte external network attached storage device (NAS), with 2 500G Maxtor SATA drives configured in a RAID (default RAID0). What’s more, it’s a worthless piece of shit. An unmitigated disaster of a product. The firmware, even after 2 upgrades, is unreliable at best. Expect almost daily reboots to keep the damn thing running. That in itself wouldn’t be so bad, if the disks didn’t fail after a month or so. Well one of them anyway, but it’s a RAID for fucks sake. Hope you didn’t store anything important on the thing!
Now I know what you’re thinking - I just got unlucky and had a faulty device. Were it only so - we have 2 of the damn things at work as well. One failed in almost the same manner - first the NIC became unstable, then one of the drives died. The second one keeps crashing, needing regular reboots, and I’m guessing it’s only a matter of time before a drive dies in that one too.
In summary - stay well clear of this thing if you love your data. Personally I’ll be buying Western Digital next time.
4 Responses to “The Maxtor MSS2”
Of course you’ll be getting a Western Digital!
Because I told you to!
Hrmm.. You seem to be copying me.. First WebFusion.. Now Wester Digital.. Suspicious!
You’ll never be English you crazy Norwegian! Never!
Well looks like I won’t be getting a WD after all, got my sights on a 500G LaCie disk
Naah.. You want a Western Digital!
They come with preety lights too dammnit! Preety lights!!
Hell, I dumped Maxtor when the only computer I knew that could manage maxtor disks when there were also other brands in the same machine, was the AMIGA. PC’s would strangely enough find phantom bad blocks, loose data, or not be able to detect the one or both disks. I swore, never to use Maxtor again, even though my maxtor disk seemed to work fine together with a “bigfoot”, and a “Quantum Fireball”.