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Dead 300 gig Sata hd Outpost.com

Seems like a good deal for sata. I could use this to fill up those sata slots I have since I only use pata... if only I had more money to spend though 🙁
 
Yeah, earlier it was saying $79.99 but when you added it to your cart it was showing $139. :-(

Now I see it showing $139 all the time.
 
shows up at 89.99 for me, but I must resist the urge. I'm waiting for the 500's and 750's to have price drops before I buy again. Got way too many drives floating around. Want to consolidate so I don't waste so much electricity.
 
Everyone swears by one HD manufacturer and demonizes another.

I've owned drives by all but Hitachi over the years.

Only one died. I think it was a Seagate.

I think Seagate bought Colorado.
Whoever it was promptly replaced my dead seagate with a Colorado HD that was three times the size of my dead Seagate. It's still running perfectly.

Seagate has since bought Maxtor.

 
Just bought a samsung 250 SATA from newegg for $79.99 + free shipping. Less storage, but speed and absolute storage not as essential as temps/noise on this build. It's a good deal IMO.

I've had HDD's from all as well, Hitachi, seagate wd maxtor. WD and maxtors have had more problems then the others. I even had 3 IBM deskstars that didn't fail, 60GXP and 75GXP.

My favorite would be Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi WD and Maxtor. All drives fail, Maxtor a little bit more, but still generally reliable.
 
You can get a 320GB SATA from WD through their Loyalty Program with NO taxes and NO shipping costs but it only has an 8MB cache.

What is best in life, to gain 20GB at the cost of 8MB cache or to gain 8MB cache at the cost of 20GB?

The loyalty program drives include a 3-year warranty on non-Raptor drives.
Raptors include a 5-year warranty.

If the drive you want isn't listed on the Loyalty Program page, call and ask them. It seems you can get a loyatly deal on most if not all of their drives.
 
Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
its a maxtor...
search maxtor and please read all the users with problems
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Oh look...another one. Someone who thinks posts on the internet constitute fact...
 
Originally posted by: Insane3D
Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
its a maxtor...
search maxtor and please read all the users with problems
Click to expand...

Oh look...another one. Someone who thinks posts on the internet constitute fact...
Click to expand...


It doesn't?

Damn it all! That paper is going to get a bad grade...
 
Been a long time since I owned a MAxtor which tends to be quiter, Maxtor, WD or Seagate. WD andSeagate seem to be about the same in noise lvel to me
 
I've had drives from all the manufacturers. Worst was of course the Deskstar from IBM, but Maxtor was always really noisy. How are they now? Anyone own this drive and want to compare the noise to a WD drive?
 
ive said it before and i'll say it again, if your data is so damn important, you should've RAID1 or 5 it or at least do regular tape or external hdd backups.

its not the money lost or the hassle of RMA'ing a drive, its the data loss thats most painful IMO.
 
Originally posted by: EKKC
ive said it before and i'll say it again, if your data is so damn important, you should've RAID1 or 5 it or at least do regular tape or external hdd backups.

its not the money lost or the hassle of RMA'ing a drive, its the data loss thats most painful IMO.
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The worst part is not knowing what data you actually lost. I had 300GB go up in smoke and I'm not sure exactly what I lost.
 
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