question about the maxline III and the diamondmax 10

[blackinches]

blackinches was wondering if 16mb cache 300gb from either lines is the same drive. are they just named differently while they are phasing out the diamondmax line?

 

[Accord99]

Maxline 3 has a 5 year warranty and supposedly premium components while the Diamondmax 10 only has a 3 year (or 1 year for retail) warranty and is intended for the mainstream market. Performance wise, they should be identical.

 

[Mik3y]

they are basically the same thing with separate warranties.

 

[blackinches]

1 year warranty that is weak. are you saying that the oem diamondmax10 drive has a 3 year warranty? maybe blackinches should go for the 300gb seagate 7200.8 drives assuming there isn't a significant performance difference.

anybody know of any stores that have the maxline III's in stock?

 

[Auric]

Perhaps blackinches should refrain from referring to themselves in the third-person. Auric is disgustipated with the Maxtor retail 1 year warranty and it is queer how the OEM is longer however the DM10 version can be had rather cheap (see hot deals), and significantly less than the Seagate offering. So it is something of a gamble. The Seagate does not offer AAM but I believe is higher density at the mo' (133 vs 100?). See pricegrabber and froogle for stock and pricing.

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by: Accord99
Maxline 3 has a 5 year warranty and supposedly premium components while the Diamondmax 10 only has a 3 year (or 1 year for retail) warranty and is intended for the mainstream market. Performance wise, they should be identical.

They are mechanically identical drives that both have a 3 year warranty (at least the SATA versions do). DiamondMax 10 is the consumer targetted name for the drive, MaxlineIII is the industry targetted name for the drive. Neither name is being phased out.

The reason retail boxed products carry a one year warranty is because they are intended to be sold in retail stores like Best Buy and CompUSA. It is these stores that request 1 year warranties so that they have the ability to offer extended warranties on products which is where they make some real money with great margins.

 

[Auric]

What a nefarious scheme!