Starting on May 15 200 GB Maxtor for $70

[classy]

It will be at Staples. I got the flyer by email. Maxtor 200gb I am not sure if its the 8mb but either way a decent deal.

edit* For some reason the link appears not to be working but its in the email for the upcoming flyer.

 

[ng12345]

is this after rebate or no rebate necessary?

 

[NaughtyGeek]

After $30 instant and $30 "easy rebate"

 

[deeznuts]

Is this PATA or SATA?

 

[NaughtyGeek]

PATA and the Link is working

 

[RobCur]

I knew it had a string attached, why don't harddrive cost less these day? always so expensive!!! :|||||||||||||

 

[Jassi]

Originally posted by: RobCur
I knew it had a string attached, why don't harddrive cost less these day? always so expensive!!! :|||||||||||||

I hope you are either really young or being sarcastic. This is a great deal. How easy are the "easy" rebates?

 

[phlashphire]

Originally posted by: Jassi

Originally posted by: RobCur
I knew it had a string attached, why don't harddrive cost less these day? always so expensive!!! :|||||||||||||

I hope you are either really young or being sarcastic. This is a great deal. How easy are the "easy" rebates?

In my experience, the Easy Rebates have been smooth and painless. No need to mail in anything. And I've been 5 for 5 with them.

 

[Passions]

Screenshot please.

 

[ansons]

i am waiting for $50AR deal for 200GB which they had last summer at Fry's...

 

[attention]

i am waiting for $50AR deal for 200GB which they had last summer at Fry's...
Good luck with that!

frys rebates (even if they go to manufacturer) are some of the worst.

It seems that frys promises the manufacturers a certain (very low) turnout for that promotion, and when that is exeeded, the rebate center starts denying left and right.

 

[toant103]

very good price. But i hate maxtor one year warranty. Used to buy a lot of maxtor but i'm switching to Seagate and WD for their 3 and 5 years warranty

 

[ty1er]

In my experience, the Easy Rebates have been smooth and painless. No need to mail in anything. And I've been 5 for 5 with them.

no need to mail anything in? how does that work?

 

[Revolutionary]

Originally posted by: ty1er

In my experience, the Easy Rebates have been smooth and painless. No need to mail in anything. And I've been 5 for 5 with them.

no need to mail anything in? how does that work?

EasyRebate is sweet. You just go to the rebates section of the site, log in, choose your qualifying order, then check the radio button next to your deal. Click submit and that's it. You can check the status online, and you just get a check in the mail 6-8 weeks later. And there's no way that I can conceive of that they would deny your rebate. Everything is on their end.

 

[BlackPear1]

Originally posted by: toant103
very good price. But i hate maxtor one year warranty. Used to buy a lot of maxtor but i'm switching to Seagate and WD for their 3 and 5 years warranty

WD retail box drives are also 1 year (except Raptor).

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: BlackPear1

Originally posted by: toant103
very good price. But i hate maxtor one year warranty. Used to buy a lot of maxtor but i'm switching to Seagate and WD for their 3 and 5 years warranty

WD retail box drives are also 1 year (except Raptor).

Yeah, OEM are 3 years I think.

Its funny, a couple years ago EVERY manufacture switched to 1 year warranties on hdds within ONE week of each other (and you can't tell me they didn't collude in that). Now several are going back to 3 year. I'm thinking they found it didn't significantly reduce thier support/replacement costs like they thought it would probably because most hdds if they are going to fail within first few years, fail fairly quick when you are using it. So they decided to go and and up it back up to 3 since it didn't cost significantly more, and probably ppl were complaining about the 1 year.

 

[wchou]

Originally posted by: Devistater

Originally posted by: BlackPear1

Originally posted by: toant103
very good price. But i hate maxtor one year warranty. Used to buy a lot of maxtor but i'm switching to Seagate and WD for their 3 and 5 years warranty

WD retail box drives are also 1 year (except Raptor).

Yeah, OEM are 3 years I think.

Its funny, a couple years ago EVERY manufacture switched to 1 year warranties on hdds within ONE week of each other (and you can't tell me they didn't collude in that). Now several are going back to 3 year. I'm thinking they found it didn't significantly reduce thier support/replacement costs like they thought it would probably because most hdds if they are going to fail within first few years, fail fairly quick when you are using it. So they decided to go and and up it back up to 3 since it didn't cost significantly more, and probably ppl were complaining about the 1 year.

hd are expensive, it cost them more later on when it breaks down after 1 year.
The trick is for people to buy a new hd then to have themfix it for free
pretty shady you say?

 

[Tullphan]

With the luck i've had in the past with Maxtor drives, I think i'd want the 3 yr warranty. I can't complain about customer service, though. Everytime I had a bad hard drive (3), they sent me a replacement immediately with no hassle. The last one that went bad was replaced with a newer, larger model.
This drive is the one w/the 16mb cache. I wonder how it'd perform compared to an 8mb cache model.

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: Tullphan
This drive is the one w/the 16mb cache. I wonder how it'd perform compared to an 8mb cache model.

Well I know the 16 meg diamondmax 10 line of SATA drives are killer. They are right up near the Raptor drives in performance (not quite as fast but the fastest besides the Raptors), and much larger and cheaper. The IDE ones I dunno.

Originally posted by: wchou
hd are expensive, it cost them more later on when it breaks down after 1 year.
The trick is for people to buy a new hd then to have themfix it for free
pretty shady you say?

Then why have companies increased from 1 year to 3 year warranty after dropping to 1 year? No I can't think its that much more expensive, else the companies wouldn't have increased it after dropping the length.

And are you trying to say do fraud by buying a new one, telling them the new one broke and sending in the broken old one thats out of warranty instead? Not ethical, and it wont work anyway. They check serial numbers and are strict about it. They wont service any where the labels have been screwed with either if you are thinking of putting the old serial on the new drive.

 

[MJGunn]

Anyone buy this drive? Wondering how loud it is while reading/writing.

Maxtor is weird. Some of their drives read/write silently (from personal experience, I know the 30, 120, and 250gb drives are quiet), and other (the 80, 160, and a few others), are quite noisy while accessing the drive.

 

[Buz2b]

Originally posted by: Revolutionary

Originally posted by: ty1er

In my experience, the Easy Rebates have been smooth and painless. No need to mail in anything. And I've been 5 for 5 with them.

no need to mail anything in? how does that work?

EasyRebate is sweet. You just go to the rebates section of the site, log in, choose your qualifying order, then check the radio button next to your deal. Click submit and that's it. You can check the status online, and you just get a check in the mail 6-8 weeks later. And there's no way that I can conceive of that they would deny your rebate. Everything is on their end.

Not exactly 100% definitive. Some rebates from Staples MUST be mailed in. Not sure of the why factor but as an example I just purchased a MS wireless notebook mouse. When trying to do the EasyRebate online, it said that it HAD to be mailed in via the forms that printed at the register. I even tried to look up the rebate seperatly by the rebate number and it said the same thing. It also was stated in the fine print of the forms from the cash register.
So, just wanted to point out that YMMV (according to what Staples sets up) as to the "Easy" part of EasyRebates. Nice deal though and I've not had any real problems with receiving rebates from Staples before.

 

[testyza]

I knew it had a string attached, why don't harddrive cost less these day? always so expensive!!! ||||||||||||

Good job, someone has a brain.

I hope you are either really young or being sarcastic. This is a great deal. How easy are the "easy" rebates?

Per forum information. ..."Uninformed rants and misinformation accomplish nothing. "
Your reply to his informed information, is uniformed

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: testyza

I knew it had a string attached, why don't harddrive cost less these day? always so expensive!!! ||||||||||||

Good job, someone has a brain.

I hope you are either really young or being sarcastic. This is a great deal. How easy are the "easy" rebates?

Per forum information. ..."Uninformed rants and misinformation accomplish nothing. "
Your reply to his informed information, is uniformed

How exactly is there a string attached? Staples practically does the rebate for you. Anyone who still complains about it must be a complete and utter moron.

 

[Devistater]

If there are mail in ones they are probably manufactures who haven't gotten with the program yet.

 

[bigrash]

This is a good deal. I might get this, but I'm worried about the 1 yr warranty