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HOT: Wilsonville Fry's Maxtor 120GB ATA133 HD w/card $129 AMIR

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Occifer

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Just reading the paper and the Wilsonville, Oregon Fry's is having a graduation sale. They have a 120GB 7200 RPM ATA133Maxtor with ATA 133 Card + 3 year warranty for $179.99 - $50 MIR = $129.99


*edit* Forgot to put Maxtor in the title
 
That sounds like a pretty damn good deal...I just hate rebates. They take too damn long to come. Tempting though...even though I already have an 80GB RAID 0 Array on my machine...more is better right? It is the American way.
 
I'm not sure who is handling the rebate... I would go check it out but I live about 2.5 hours away from fry's. If I lived closer I might have picked one up. Never have bought a Maxtor before, I usually stick with WD or Seagate 🙂 I agree that sometimes rebates are a PITA!
 
I have never had a problem with Maxtor drives. Same Warranty length. They are a great company like Western Digital they usually give rebates fast.

These drives are fast! I have a 30Gig 7200 RPM and it's quiet and very reliable.

How can you go wrong for a buck a Gig?

 
Fry's usually handles the rebate.

It's a damn good price. Some people wouldn't mind the wait, but I personally would go for the 80GB/$109 deal from Staples.
 
this deal is on outpost.com/fry's, but it is a 5400RPM drive, not 7200. to those of you that saw it on the shelves, did it say 7200 rpm on the box? great price no matter what.

just making sure everyone knows what they are getting. not trying to thread crap.

tdawg
 
hmmm.... how is speed affected if its a ata133 card but only 5400 rpm?

second, i would imagine it shoudl be faster for that reason, and also a good deal because you get a free udma/133 card with the drive.
 
hmm interesting, so is this at more then just wilsonville? or do other frys locations resort to outpost.com? btw i think the density of 120GB makes up for the 5400 rpm🙂 well compared to that 80GB 7200rpm. if they have the same platters its definetly faster anyways🙂


so 120GB requires a new ata controller. how about a 80GB? i've only tried 60gb so far on my asus p3v4x ata66?
or am i screwed either way.
 
hm n/m i looked at the ad

120GB ata133 + controller 5400rpm 129 AR Maxtor
120GB ata100 gxp 7200rpm 159 bux imb
100GB 139 instant rebate ata 100 7200RPM Western Digital


I can't see any reviews on some of these on storagereview.. ah well🙁
 
the upgrade to 133 isn't for speed it's for drive size. ata 66 can only handle a 32 gig drive, ata 100 can handle up to a 132gig drive and i'm not shure on the cap for ata 133 but it's high only realy needed now for the 160gig drive but they made it in smaller sizes just for show. the fastest IDE drive out now isn't useing the bandwith of an ata 66 connection so don't think this has anything to do with speed just supported drive size. but a good storage drive non the less and the free controller card is nice, a promise card i belive. they run about $50 at newegg so nice deal. i'm actual off to buy it from outpost right now i'm out of ide space and storage space so i wanted a good deal on this drive or the 160.
 
ata 66 can only handle a 32 gig drive

well that part i know isn't true, i run 60GB on an ata 66🙂 have the 120gb sitting inn the box, no real intention of using the controller so will see if it works soon enough🙂 might need to flash my bios😛
 
are you shure you have an ata 66 controler not a 100 controler? i had a 40 gig drive on my old 66 system and the only way to get it detected was to partition it down to 32 gigs. what motherboard are you useing? it could be that the 32gig was a limit imposed by my bios but all the information i got at the time told me it was ata 66.

and if you need a review of this line of drives just run a search on google, most of the reviews are actualy for the 160 gig drive but they still aplly to this one.

a reveiw on the 160 gig drive and a little about address limits on the ata interface, and some info on how maxtor broke the 137 gig barrier.
 
kewl thanx for the info🙂 i still havn't opened the drive cuz of the possible western digital 100GB 7200rpm for 89 after instant/mail in rebates... which is still kinda fuzzy. 100GB 7200rpm for $89 means less then a dollar each GB if deal pans out. or go with Maxtor 120GB 5400rpm and sacrifice speed but gain a controller card(no more free pci in my pc). a little more then a dollar per GB. ah decisions decisions.

i'm sure its an ata66, its an asus p3v4x m/b, good board but still relatively old now i suppose🙂 according to the maxtor box each different os has partition limits. 95/98 32GB partitions. 98se/me 128GB all NT based = 138GB etc.

i read a review of the western digital 100GB on storagereview.com, and they tested it originally on a ata 66 controller.
 
Hey bockchow I have a 45GB HD and an 80GB HD partitioned each in both of those sizes on an ATA66 controller. It's on the i820 board (it's my old machine) and there is no problem with detection, I think you should contact your motherboard manufacturer for the bios flash update cause most older ATA66 boards need the flash, 🙂
 
I don't know about you guys, but I'm still running a abit bx6r2 w/ata33 and my 120gb and 30gb 7200rpm drives are automatically detected in the bios and running smoothly!

Originally posted by: RazeOrc
Hey bockchow I have a 45GB HD and an 80GB HD partitioned each in both of those sizes on an ATA66 controller. It's on the i820 board (it's my old machine) and there is no problem with detection, I think you should contact your motherboard manufacturer for the bios flash update cause most older ATA66 boards need the flash, 🙂
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heh, well it works without a bios flash for my asus p3v4x🙂 just set it as slave, boot to win 2k and go to disk management and format away🙂 i got the wd drive😛
 
ya the board i had the trouble with was an old fic slot 1 board that got fried like a year ago, the drive was a forty gig ibm that i still use today(completely full though thats why i need a bigger drive). i was still trying to solve the problem when it died. only lasted about 3 months, i got it new from computer geeks.
 
Hehe, you can run anything up to 133gb or something like that on ATA33 and up...they are all the same width in bits, the ata133 controllers are 48 bits wide and can support thousands of gigs (literally), as will serial ata...and there is a performance difference between ata100 and ata66, esp. if you have more than one drive on one IDE cable.
 
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