*DEAD* *NEW* Maxtor 80GB Ultra 8MB cache Hard Drive$69.99 posible $49.99 after PM and MIR @Staples 11/17-11/24

[hollowman]

Originally posted by: fastman
Up and running very fast drive, very very quiet, case fans are louder then the drive is....

hollowman
where have you been last 4-5 days?

working for a living, like today not making frivolous replys to posts,

well, then you are forgiven.

 

[tuan121]

just looked at the staples page and there is a special offer sign on the 80gig maxtor. COULD THERE be a MIR in the works??

 

[finalpendragon]

i just finished getting my Western Digital $100 rebates for Three 120gig drives i bought from teh Best Buy deal a month or so ago. 3 120 gig drives, 30 bucks a piece. After that, nothing seems quite as sweet.

 

[K-squared]

Where?

It's not on the....

Drives & Storage page,....

product listing page,....

nor the rebate center page........

So where did you hide it !

Originally posted by: tuan121
just looked at the staples page and there is a special offer sign on the 80gig maxtor. COULD THERE be a MIR in the works??

 

[Shame]

Originally posted by: JETninja

Originally posted by: LoStZ

She's lost, LoStZ...LOL! They are the same HD...ATA133 is UDMA133...just different ways of saying the same thing. The P/N is the same.....and they don't mention ram speed when it comes to HD's...only access times, Ram amount, etc...

How can they be that dumb and argue against a pricematch at the same time?

 

[BobSnob]

I'm using this drive right now and I agree 100% with MJ. It is quite loud during seek operations, much more of a rattle than the WD400BB it replaced. His video is pretty much spot on. I've also benchmarked it against the WD in the same role as primary drive on a Windows XP NTFS system. Using Sandra I get:

WD400BB : 14790
Maxtor 6Y080P0: 20756

However, Sandra does tend to give a lot of weight to burst speeds, which means that the Maxtor won't be 50% faster in everyday usage. It doesn't seem any faster anyway.

 

[Aagiants]

Rebate turned up invalid, but i called and they validated it