If you google the right words, you find that discussion. And as there are many thousands of these drives there will be lots of posts.
Other drives fail too.
Bob
you know i have been browsing the peripheral forum. and it seems like the people that own a MAXTOR EXT HDD has some sort of problem with it.

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