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It's dead again ! 320Gb Maxtor SATA drive for $60 at Frys.com

foolish501

foolish501

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Previous thread was locked too soon, i've seen for the last month or so the drive going in and out of stock, or price fluctuating between $59.99 and $109.99

Bought 1 for a friend about 2 weeks ago, and bought 2 more for me this week. I got the 320Gb drives, my friend got the 300Gb drive. Great drives, very quiet, and even better in raid.

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All I can say is if they are the old Maxtor Grizzly drives...run...don't walk away.

I love Seagate, but in my experience the original maxtor drives were hell...in a bad way.
 
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Originally posted by: bamacre
Originally posted by: Cr0nJ0b
All I can say is if they are the old Maxtor Grizzly drives...run...don't walk away.
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Well last time this deal was posted, I ordered four, and all looked like this...

http://www.majortoker.com/images/max320gb.jpg
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Yep. I have a few of them myself. People need to get over "maxtor" and realize they are now just Seagate drives with a shorter warranty.
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I never had any problem with Maxtor drives 😕 WD on the other hand...

I may pick one of these up. I could use some extra storage.
 
Originally posted by: lxskllr
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Originally posted by: bamacre
Originally posted by: Cr0nJ0b
All I can say is if they are the old Maxtor Grizzly drives...run...don't walk away.
Click to expand...

Well last time this deal was posted, I ordered four, and all looked like this...

http://www.majortoker.com/images/max320gb.jpg
Click to expand...

Yep. I have a few of them myself. People need to get over "maxtor" and realize they are now just Seagate drives with a shorter warranty.
Click to expand...

I never had any problem with Maxtor drives 😕 WD on the other hand...

I may pick one of these up. I could use some extra storage.
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I never have either. People on the board though over the past year or so have been down on Maxtor. Either way, Maxtor is now Seagate.
 
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Originally posted by: lxskllr
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Originally posted by: bamacre
Originally posted by: Cr0nJ0b
All I can say is if they are the old Maxtor Grizzly drives...run...don't walk away.
Click to expand...

Well last time this deal was posted, I ordered four, and all looked like this...

http://www.majortoker.com/images/max320gb.jpg
Click to expand...

Yep. I have a few of them myself. People need to get over "maxtor" and realize they are now just Seagate drives with a shorter warranty.
Click to expand...

I never had any problem with Maxtor drives 😕 WD on the other hand...

I may pick one of these up. I could use some extra storage.
Click to expand...

I never have either. People on the board though over the past year or so have been down on Maxtor. Either way, Maxtor is now Seagate.
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The only drives that have failed on me have all been Maxtor. But that was before they were purchased by Seagate. Seagate drives rule

The best part about a 5 year warranty is that the drive is worthless at the end of 5 years anyway; five years from now we'll have very affordable terrabyte hard drives, and these 320GB won't be worth much at all. I'm not sure why Seagate only does a 3 year warranty on these maxtor drives though... it's the same hardware after all

I'm not going to bite just because I already have too many hard drives
 
Originally posted by: Heller
No free shipping.. gah

not that hot..
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Even taking in account shipping (I paid $7.91 for 2 drives) it's under $0.20/GB. The only drives I've found at that price per GB are OEM, these have a full retail warranty, and they all appear to be 7200.10s, very good drives. I'd say it's least warm.
 
Originally posted by: BoberFett
Originally posted by: Heller
No free shipping.. gah

not that hot..
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Even taking in account shipping (I paid $7.91 for 2 drives) it's under $0.20/GB. The only drives I've found at that price per GB are OEM, these have a full retail warranty, and they all appear to be 7200.10s, very good drives. I'd say it's least warm.
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Shipping for me was about $8.25, for four drives. So shipping cost per drive, was insignificant. Deal is hot, IMO.
 
The Samsung 320gb Spinpoint is $74.99 shipped on the egg, which is about $0.23 / gb. But that's OEM. The Maxtor is about $67.50 shipped for one drive. Is the Samsung reliability worth the $8 difference in price, despite the OEM? Methinks that is the question...

(Of course, the Samsung is OOS on Newegg, but we're talking philosophically speaking here...)
 
Just got mine, it is indeed a 7200.10 Seagate drive. I have a 400GB one that this will sit next to in my HTPC.

These drives do run a little warm, but they fly and are extremely reliable.
 
Nice deal, grabbed one. Perfect timing - I think my 120GB external storage drive is about to bite the dust.
 
I grabbed 2 the last time and have set up internal RAID 0 for storage purposes. The HDD had default jumper setting to force SATA 150 so I pulled them out from both drives. Do any of you know if this jumper setting affect drive performance?
 
Maxtor install guide

Motherboards and host controllers equipped with VIA, VT8237, VT8237R, VT6420, VT6421L, SIS760 and SIS964 do not support SATA 300 transfer speeds. For Maxtor SATA 300 drives to unction properly on the VIA chipsets, the Force 150 jumper must be used.
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Shouldn't be a problem unless you're using it with one of those chipsets. I'm using mine on a SiS761/SiS966L chipset board and it works fine with the jumper off.
 
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