Maxtor 30GB 7200RPM ATA100 plus Free ATA100 controller card $99.99 after MIR

[Triggerhappy007]

Compusa has this drive for $129.99. Circuit city has this for $139.99-$30MIR. Go to Circuit City and pricematch it. If you buy the ATA100 controller along with the hard drive, you will get $50 back, so free controller card.

 

[TERMIN]

How do you use both rebates for circuit city and maxtor???

I think you need the original upc from both the ATA100 controller card and the hard drive for the maxtor rebate.

Has anyone sent a copy of the upcs to maxtor and recieved a rebate??

Do you just send a copy of the receipt and a copy of the hard drive's upc to the circuit city rebate or do you need the original upc??

Please help me, cuz i did this deal like last week and i need help with the rebates....thanx

 

[freebee]

There may be a catch to the Circuit City deal, which says it excludes previous purchases. Also, the B&M require you to bring the actual ad to PM, which is a bit of a hassle.

 

[Strych9]

Couldn't you price match with staples and use a $30 of $100 coupon. You wouldn't have to wait for a rebate check this way.

 

[gu3]

Maxtor has promotion 1 and 2 for the ATA100 card.
If a person applied for the rebate on #1, then bought
a second HD and card, would it work for promo #2.
The rebate form limits one-per household, and each is
mailed to the same address?? A one-time only deal??
{each purchase being made
within the accepted time-frames}
Thanks for any help-- before calling Staples for
the card to go with the second HD, which they've
already shipped.

 

[beta2000]

Guys, stay away from Maxtor. I bought a Maxtor ATA 66 20GB less than 6 months ago. It got bad sector recently. It took me the whole weekend to replace it with a new HD and install everything back. We have used at least 40 WD HDs and never had one died like this. BTW, Seagate is not very good either. we bought 8 and returned 3 for repair.

 

[valkyrie]

So, out of 40 drives, one developed a problem (which you were able to fix) and you tell us to stay away?! Wow, that's harsh. In my experience the Maxtor drives have been great. I just ordered this one (thanks!), and got it for $108 shipped.

Thanks, guys! Now I'm off to order the ATA card and get it for a good price, too!

 

[chottoed]

that's funny i'm the exact opposite...
maxtor's have never died on me but wd's always have...

btw i bought these exact drives and card a little while back using circuit city for pricematch to best buy's $93/drive...
these drives kick butt!... i'm using 2 of them on raid right now

 

[blindspot]

Same thing here! Had bad experience with Maxtor. Bad Sectors!!!! Upgraded to IBM 75GXP Deskstar 45GB. Never had a single problem. Think about it. 30GB Maxtor $100 vs 45GB IBM $140 or less. For a few bucks more for peace of mind and 15GB more.

 

[mrVW]

Uh guys. All drive brands fail. Hard drives are one of the most unreliable parts of the computer. Mechanical part that often is ON 24x7 (my systems always are). Just like power supply fans, high failure rate on most brands.

My IBM 20GB 5400RPM drives purchased 16 to 18 months ago area all starting to fail. Bad sectors showing up, bearings getting noisy. I have 3 and at least 2 are showing this... keeping an eye on the third.

I've installed over 3,000 hard drives since 1985. All "affordable" brands have bad periods and suck at one time or another. Problems tend to be "batch specific". You name the brand.

Heck, even companies like Compaq (Servers) who recertify the OEM products with their own firmware review and extensive tests... I've had batches of drives with serious flaws that took them months to correct (new firmware or "total recall&quot. The first 9GB 10,000RPM SCSI drives from Compaq were just such an example.

IBM even once sold mainframe hard drives with bearing grease that would go bad after a few months. There is no such thing as affordable perfection.

Surprising, I find hard drives in general don't have that high of a DOA rate. I tend to find bad ones fail after 4 to 18 months... good ones fail after 5 years or more. Of course, i consider bearing noise (sounding like a jet engine whine) as failure. Once the thing is so loud you can't be in the same room with it, it has failed

 

[Macro2]

Will Circuit City Pricematch a CompUSA price even after the CompUSA instant rebate (149-20IR=129)?

Mac

 

[Triggerhappy007]

Yes, you can because it's instant, it's not a mail-in rebate.

 

[Macro2]

Trigger,

Trying to pricematch at Circuit City was a joke. They said their price was cheaper than CompUSA. I said CompUSA was an instant rebate. They wey a bunch of turkeys about. I ended up buying the drive anyway.

Mac

 

[goodoptics]

just picked the drive and the ATA controller up today at Circuit City for $179.98 + Tax - $30 Circuit City MIR - $50 Maxtor MIR.

Thanks for the deal!!!

 

[Redsho]

Is That an ATA/100 drive??
Circuit City's Web Site only says ATA/66....
Any positive it's ATA/100

 

[Redsho]

Circuit City out of stock :-(
No more $30 CC MIR either :-(
Would have been an excellent deals with my CC gift cert of $50 too....
Not too hot now... :-(

 

[nilanjan]

I have seen posts like "This brand is bad.. i had trouble with this" etc. in this forum and other oness. One need to remember just because one single item went bad doesn't mean every batch they manufacture over last 50 years are all equally bad. Little bit of knowledge in statistics will tell you to come to a conclusion like "max is bad" or "wd is bad" you need to take about 100(an acceptable sample size) of the hard drives randomly( i.e different batch, dieerent factory etc) from all the manufacturer you want to compare with. make them undergo same operation under similar condition and then check the no of failure rates and probably you can come to an conclusion which one is the most reliable. Otherwise statement like "this brand is bad" based on your experience on 1 or may be a couple of hard drives (goes for any component) is FOOLISH!!!!!!! As long as you don't have that statistical knowledge it is wise to refrain from that kind of conclusion.

 

[Takan]

Folks, this is not the best deal for this combo. Best Buy has this drive for $109 (at least they still did on Sat.). Get Staples.com to pricematch that, and then use their $30 off $100 coupon. You get free shipping, and with tax, the drive is less than $90. This is what I did, and love the drive. The nicest I've had so far. I have IBM's, WD's and now this maxtor. I like this (but know I would like any newer technology drive) because it's quiet, fast, and big (all relative to what I already use ) Hope this saves you some more money.

 

[maxcom]

BB price is $129 since sunday ..hope this saves you some more hassle

 

[shurato]

I own a maxtor 17.2 which i paid like nearly 400 bucks for back in the day and 2x 30 gig 7200 rpm maxtors...they've all worked perfectly to this day.

 

[Pers]

anyone know if the Quantum drives are any good?