mooncancook
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is the Maxtor 200GB SATA any good? is it a retail drive or OEM? anybody knows? I need a SATA drive for my new rig but i heard ppl said maxtor drives are not very reliable...
From Outpost.com, "Maxtor 200GB L01M200 8MB Buffer Serial ATA (SATA) - Retail Hard Drive Kit
As far as Maxtor reliability, I've only had one drive act up on me. An 80GB drive started making a clickety clackety noise. Probably warning me of its impending death. Only had the drive for ~ 14 months.
got the 160GB hdd this weekend. going to get my system to past 800GB. just that much closer to breaking the 1TB barrire.
//krunk (^_^x)
//krunk (^_^x)
mooncancook
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Western Digital drives are junk. I've seen so many of them fail over the last year I've lost count. Plus their warranty service is crap. Took over a month for two of my drives to get replaced... and that was only after threatening legal action. I buy only Seagate drives now. It says something that a manufacturer is prepared to stand over its products for 5 years. They are nice and fast and quiet too.
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Posted two new Seagate deals (see top):
300GB Seagate SATA drive for $239.99 - $40 MIR = $199.99 or ~ $0.67/GB
120GB Seagate PATA drive for $65.00 (NO Rebates) or ~ $0.54/GB
Not the greatest deals, but the 120GB drive is good since it doesn't involve any rebates.
Buy each separately (6 separate transactions) and send each rebate to a different address (e.g. home, work, parents, brother, sister, uncle/aunt, grandparents, etc.) and use a different name for each one.
I've had my eye on Seagate 200GB NCQ @139.69 shipped or $.70/GB ...but haven't had the $$$ to pull the trigger.
Somthing to consider for those of you who are looking for NCQ and 5 year warranty.
No sales tax except in CA,TN,PR and NJ.
Somthing to consider for those of you who are looking for NCQ and 5 year warranty.
No sales tax except in CA,TN,PR and NJ.
I have had WD drives in every computer I have had so far since the mid 1980's. Only one drive has ever failed and they shipped me another drive within a few days before I returned the failed drive. Their handling of the whole thing was without any problems. Thanks for scaring them into submission so I would have it so easy.
Seagate has been running nearly continuous promos on the pATA-160s thru outpost since September. The promos have been varying from 2-4 weeks each and you can pick-up one drive per promo. I've bought 4 of the exact same model (Oct+Nov+Dec+Jan) for a cheap raid setup. Price + ship - rebate has worked out 47-59$/drive depending on promo terms.
Nothing special, but they seem solid and reasonably quiet. Not as hot as the Maxtor-9s but not a cool-runner either. Fact is, all the => 7200rpm'ers need active cooling, IMO.
Western Digital drives are great... FOR ME TO POOP ON!!
I've had 3 WD drives in my entire life. First one crapped out after about 2.5 years. Advanced RMA'd for another, crapped out in about 3 months. Advanced RMA'd for a third, sold on eBay and bought a real harddrive.
Its very possible for someone to go 15 years buying WD drives and not run into a stinker, but I've heard way too many WD horror stories from friends and colleagues to ever buy one again (including my own). The only WD deal I'd jump on is if I could get 120 GB drives for about $10. Then I could buy 3-4 and raid 1 them so when one craps out in 3 months, I don't get screwed. Frankly, you can have all the WD drives. Their reputation is historically bad, remains bad, and will take about 7 years to clear before I consider their drives reliable enough to spend money on.
And why do I always miss the good deals? Man that 160 deal would have made my day... (whine whine.. etc.)
I've had 3 WD drives in my entire life. First one crapped out after about 2.5 years. Advanced RMA'd for another, crapped out in about 3 months. Advanced RMA'd for a third, sold on eBay and bought a real harddrive.
Its very possible for someone to go 15 years buying WD drives and not run into a stinker, but I've heard way too many WD horror stories from friends and colleagues to ever buy one again (including my own). The only WD deal I'd jump on is if I could get 120 GB drives for about $10. Then I could buy 3-4 and raid 1 them so when one craps out in 3 months, I don't get screwed. Frankly, you can have all the WD drives. Their reputation is historically bad, remains bad, and will take about 7 years to clear before I consider their drives reliable enough to spend money on.
And why do I always miss the good deals? Man that 160 deal would have made my day... (whine whine.. etc.)
why you people need to upgrade the disks all the time ? 20 g should be more than enough for anything you could ever want
I think that Fry's/Outpost has the worst rebate return rate in the universe. I have never dealt with a store that I only get 2 out of 8 rebates back, and I only get those if I call them up and remind them.
CUSA is slow to get them to you but they do show up. But the best place I get them from is Costco, with there new on-line reate deal I got my Turbotax rebate back in ten days. I had not goten my tax return before the rebate check showed up.
CUSA is slow to get them to you but they do show up. But the best place I get them from is Costco, with there new on-line reate deal I got my Turbotax rebate back in ten days. I had not goten my tax return before the rebate check showed up.
20 gig hd can't even handle the software i have and the games...
my 400sc is lacking more room for me to put hd. I need to buy a usb drive caddy or something...
my 400sc is lacking more room for me to put hd. I need to buy a usb drive caddy or something...
Thanks for the list.
I'd order more often from these guys, except I get the double whammy of sales tax (8.25%) and too-high shipping, which pretty much kills the <$0.50/gb good deals.
Pretty much the only deals on hard drives they've come up with that were worth it for me to go after are the 160gb Seagates for $49 after rebate. And even those come out to almost $70 after rebate, sales tax & shipping. :disgust:
I'd order more often from these guys, except I get the double whammy of sales tax (8.25%) and too-high shipping, which pretty much kills the <$0.50/gb good deals.
Pretty much the only deals on hard drives they've come up with that were worth it for me to go after are the 160gb Seagates for $49 after rebate. And even those come out to almost $70 after rebate, sales tax & shipping. :disgust:
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