Maxtor Hard Drive catches fire.
Dell batteries you say catch fire? Well don't worry about that dell battery, look inside your PC case at your HDD, mine just went up in smoke and flames...
Read on to see the pics and learn more about exactly what happened!
Well, I was going about my business tonight, got back from the store and hit the power button on my computer... I heard this crackling sound, and smelled something burning, I got worried... but the system continued to boot, but didn't actually boot, it said NTLDR not found, which means it couldn't find the OS Loader on the other drives... so I restarted the system and went into the BIOS, sure enough my 200Gig SATA Maxtor hard drive wasn't there.....
So I powered the system off and pulled the drive, I examined it and it looked fine, so I figured I would just plug it in while it was out of the case to make sure it was running... when I hit the power button flames..LITERALLY shot out of the bottom of the HDD, I was like F**K!! The flames were a good three inches high, I quickly hit the power button on the PSU to Power everything down and un hooked the drive, one of the chips on the bottom of the HDD is burned badly, it actually looks like it exploded, some of the legs came de-soldered and are actually bent outwards like they blew out...
I popped a new HDD in the case and am installing Windows XP on there now, so the system still works fine, just the HDD got fried apparently...
BUT FLAMES SHOOTING OUT OF IT?!?!?!?! Damn, first dell batteries now Hard Drives... What's next?!?
ANd FYI, the Hard Drive is a 200Gig Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA150 Manufactured on March 1st 2005
I bought the drive in June of 2005 from NewEgg, it has been fine ever since, I came home from store and POOF... No overheating no nothing, ,machineis not overclocked...
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:4524, old post ID:36093
Is maxtor the next deathstar? Blows up houses? 
Though I always thought highly of maxtor drives as well. Seagate is just cheaper. 