Maxtor MaxBoost Beta  beta

Publisher's Description:

MaxBoost is performance-boosting driver software which operates under Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP and which is designed to complement your Maxtor ATA or SATA hard drive. This driver intelligently caches data in the host system RAM before it is written to and read from the Maxtor disk drive, enhancing the effective storage speed of your system under a variety of system conditions and applications.

Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	Floodland	Dec 27, 2003
Version:	Beta
I used this crap with a 120gb maxtor SATA disk mounted on a Asus A7V600 motherboard (onboard VIA SATA). Ok, I tried once and didn't worked (the system worked pretty bad), so I uninstalled. Later, I thought it deserve a second chance. I tried it again and this time was even worse. Not only it hanged with all programs as it did before, but after uninstalling it and rebooted as requested, my windows never started again (BSOD). No errors on uninstalling or anything like that, but seemed to messed the "System" registry, no luck with last known good configuration or chkdsk on recovery console or anything (it fixed some corruption, but couldn't make windows start again). This crap killed my windows xp. These toy is not only bad, but EXTREMLY DANGEROUS. It's seems not to be a beta, but pretty early microsoft alpha crap. Maxtor, please keep making good hard disk and forget the software.
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Reviewer:	NXprime	Dec 27, 2003
Version:	Beta
Warning!! This is a beta!!! DO NOT ENABLE THIS STUPID THING WHILE TRANSFERING FILES OVER TO A DIFF MAXTOR HARD DRIVE!!!! Corrupted all my xmas photos & all sorts of other stuff. :(
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Reviewer:	donemail@yahoo.com	Dec 25, 2003
Version:	Beta
MaxBoost significantly improved my disk performance. I have had a real disk thrashing problem until I installed this program. Good job Maxtor.
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Reviewer:	the_duke748	Dec 25, 2003
Version:	Beta
Despite what the readme says, this program will not work on Nvidia Nforce2 based chipsets, it will not recognise my Maxtor drive (using the latest Nvidia Nforce drivers)....
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Reviewer:	BB88	Dec 24, 2003
Version:	Beta
If it does what it claims, then it sure is cool. But with my 1GB of memory, I got the error like this: "not enough system resource/memory, MaxBlastBoost will now be disabled".
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