Maxtor 80Gb hard drive $253 shipped in stock after rebate

[Kwad Guy]

Computers4sure.com has the Maxtor 80gb hard drive
IN STOCK for $309 plus $5.25 shipping. In another
current Anandtech thread
Click here for other thread
you can read about a current BrandsForLess-related
20% off offer on purchases up to $1000 from a number
of merchants, including Computers4Sure.

$309-20%+5.25 = 253.25. And it's IN STOCK.

I picked one up, along with an IBM 10000rpm 18Gb SCSI
36LZX drive that comes out to $282 after rebate
(also a deal).

Kwad

 

[jdura99]

damn thats a lot of hard drive!!!

Josh Dura

 

[ElDiablo]

Does the maxtor have a rebate too? That's what the thread title seems to suggest.

Thanks

 

[barebottoms]

Ha! Mine Arrived today, just in time for the TiVo.

 

[Kwad Guy]

No rebate on the drive. Rebate from the BrandsForLess type
organization described in the other (linked) thread. Price
is $253 after rebate FROM THAT PLACE.

Kwad

 

[Souka]

Don't forget that Win98 (WinMe too?) can only support upto 64GB on a single partition.

Not to mention that I"m sure many BIOS's may have problems with such a large drive.....

 

[namlook]

I think most people will be partitioning an 80 GB drive into much smaller partitions. It would be silly to just have one 80 GB partition unless you need that much in one partition for professional video work or something.

I ended up getting the 60 GB Maxtor from Staples for $169 + tax after $100 off in coupons

 

[ScAndal]

namlook,
I indeed will use it as an 80gig partition because I'm going to put
all my albums on it in mp3 format.

ScAndal

 

[zoiks]

nahhh....i think 80 gigs is absurd. Whos gonna use 80 GIGs. I think ill get that 60 gigs one instead.

 

[Wacko]

zoiks - Sounds like the famous saying of Bill Gates "Who will ever need more than 640K of memory"
LOL Be suprised what you can do with drive space when you got it

 

[GMaximus]

Just a year ago i got 2 hard drives totalling 17 gigs of space...that blew my mind back then...

Now im looking for an 80 gig myself...in another year ill probably need a bigger one

 

[TheTechnique]

NAMLOOK:

Where did you get $100 in coupons and which drive was it?

Thanks.

 

[namlook]

The coupons used were the $80 off $180 coupon that has been circulating around and one of the many $20 off $50 coupons out there. The $80 off $180 was supposedly only for a Yamaha drive but it has recently worked for many people on any order over $180 while other people get rejected. Also for some reason the coupons were able to be combined for $100 off an order over $180. Right now the $80 off $180 doesn't seem to work but it sometimes works then stops working then works again from time to time. Not sure why. The drive I got was the Maxtor 60 GB Diamondmax item #437119 at Staples.

 

[Blindman]

know a place where we can find the coupon?

 

[jhassi]

98/ME doesn't support larger than 64 gigs?? do you have links, i never heard this before.

 

[Capster]

From what I've heard it's more that fdisk doesn't truly support more than 64 megs...not necessarily any of the Win9x flavors technically. If someone has more specific info, I'd appreciate hearing it.

 

[zoiks]

i was just kiddin....actually i have over a 100gigs in my home network....3 pcs. tho its hard to maintain all the junk i put in it and it swallows all my software in some recess in the disk dir. Anybody know if theres a program out there that can index stuff on your cds and hd so i can make a list and find what im looking for.

 

[Scyber]

Actually anything over 6 gigs starts to become ineffecient in win98 (not sure of ME). Once you go over 6.4gigs the cluster size on the drive starts getting bigger than 4k. This can begun extremely ineffecient when storing a lot of data. Just look at how much space was freed up when you switched from FAT to FAT32. I know I freed up almost 500 megs on a 2 gig drive.

Scyber

 

[syf3r]

ZOIKS:

there is an app called WhereIsIt? that will do *exactly* what you need it to... the interface/procedures takes some getting used to, but once you have your database(s) built (it supports multiple catalogs if you want to separate software, stock photography, projects, music, etc) then all you need to do is a search and it will list every disc/directory that contains a file that matches your query. you can find it here: http://www.whereisit-soft.com

(can't get linking to work, for some reason)

-syf3r.

 

[zoiks]

syf3r....thanks dude...ill check it out.