Ultra16 250GB, 7200RPM, Internal ATA/133 Hard Drive

[Krell]

Manufacturer: Maxtor

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Mfg Part #: L01R250

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Product Number: 316138

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Was: $159.99
$99.99 (37% Off)
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[WE_DELIVER]

Some how, over the years, I have been told that Maxtor makes shitty, cheap drives. Although its a good deal.

You like em/have personal experience with em?

[Malakai1911]

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?ref=cj&product_code=334239&pfp=SEARCH

Good deal! But too bad the SATA one is the same price but 50GB less... boo.

[Malakai1911]

Some how, over the years, I have been told that Maxtor makes shitty, cheap drives. Although its a good deal.

You like em/have personal experience with em?

I have a pretty big mix of maxtor, western digital and seagate drives. The only drive I'd had die before throwing/selling it has been a seagate so far.

[Krell]

Every time CompUSA does this I try to buy two of them

I put them in the VENUS DS3 removable cases that I have posted here before, sweet deal

No problems with the drives, just keep them defragged, and use DisKeeper 9 to defrag the MFT or increase the size of it. But that it true for any drive.

I have had to RMA 7 Seagates


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man I wish I had the spare change to get another drive! *sighs*

/me wants this

[DigitalJunkie]

I found Hitachi Deskstar 250GB SATA 7200RPM 8MB Cache on sale for $108. It's only $9 more than Maxtor, but it's a SATA drive.

Is Hitachi Deskstar a good hard drive?

http://store.yahoo.com/directron/deskstar250.html

[Krell]

ehhh . . . well . . . depends on who you ask

IBM uses them almost exclusively, but they are known to die

I further qualify this tho, that IBM uses a technology to LOCK the drive so it can not read ANY ATA commands if you set a pwd on the drive, so this may contribute to a lot of the failure stories and high RMA rate of these.


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[Lord_of_the_Dense]

I'd take that 200GB SATA if I had the cash.

[Kevin33134]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Manufactory=&PropertyCodeValue=353%3A7873&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=0&description=&MinPrice=&MaxPrice=&SubCategory=14&Submit=Property

I prefer Newegg.

[Sephiroth]

I found Hitachi Deskstar 250GB SATA 7200RPM 8MB Cache on sale for $108. It's only $9 more than Maxtor, but it's a SATA drive.

Is Hitachi Deskstar a good hard drive?

http://store.yahoo.com/directron/deskstar250.html

The Deskstar which IBM used to own before unloading it on hitachi has gotten the nickname DeathStar associated with it because of all the problems users had with that line of drives.

Since they didnt change the design when hitachi bought it, you might want to just stay away from this brand unless your feeling lucky.

And i also perfer newegg.

[WE_DELIVER]

Speaking of...

I just had a Seagate fail the other day, brand new out of the box!
It was the SATA 300Gig I was talking about in the other thread.
I was quite surprised, but im sure it happens