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The Price Barrier Has Been Broken! 500GB SATA drive for under $100 shipped! - Harbourmaster - 05-21-2007
Maxtor 500GB Serial ATA/300 16MB Buffer - L01F500 Retail Hard Drive Kit.
FRYS.com #: 4551377
$99.99 & free shipping!!!! http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4551377
Limit 1 per household
Re: The Price Barrier Has Been Broken! 500GB SATA drive for under $100 shipped! - weapon - 05-21-2007
maxtor
Now you can lose 500GB of stuff to their eventual failure instead of just 80GB...
Re: The Price Barrier Has Been Broken! 500GB SATA drive for under $100 shipped! - Racer X - 05-21-2007
you can say the same about every manufacturer of hard drives in the past 10 years.
Who is good today is the important thing.
Re: The Price Barrier Has Been Broken! 500GB SATA drive for under $100 shipped! - JoeM - 05-21-2007
[quote weapon]maxtor
Now you can lose 500GB of stuff to their eventual failure instead of just 80GB...
I lost 2 Maxtor 250GB FW drives after less than one yr.... does that count?
Re: The Price Barrier Has Been Broken! 500GB SATA drive for under $100 shipped! - Harbourmaster - 05-21-2007
Good
Fast
Cheap
Choose any two...
Re: The Price Barrier Has Been Broken! 500GB SATA drive for under $100 shipped! - GeneL - 05-21-2007
So far I've never had a problem with a Maxtor Drive. (knock wood!)
Re: The Price Barrier Has Been Broken! 500GB SATA drive for under $100 shipped! - weapon - 05-21-2007
Yes. All of my maxtor drives failed in under 2 years.
Some of my seagates are still running after 7 years. the others vary from 3 to 6 months in age. All running strong. Just a friendly warning.
When I lost an 80gb I was angry, but I recovered the materials by using the freeze method. I could never have done this with a 500GB drive.
Seagate did buy maxtor so the quality might improve but I have a feeling that they are trying to clear out inventory before making any strides towards quality
Re: The Price Barrier Has Been Broken! 500GB SATA drive for under $100 shipped! - GeneL - 05-21-2007
Am I the only one who's had a good experience with Maxtor?
Re: The Price Barrier Has Been Broken! 500GB SATA drive for under $100 shipped! - RAMd®d - 05-21-2007
I've been happy with my Maxies. Never lost one.
I lost two five-year warrantied Seagates at one year. Let's hope the others make it to at least five years.
Re: The Price Barrier Has Been Broken! 500GB SATA drive for under $100 shipped! - Silencio - 05-22-2007
The only drives I've lost so far were IBM/Hitachis, though I had one of those ultra-cheap 120GB 2.5" Western Digitals start to act up on me.
I too took a long holiday from Maxtor, but their higher-capacity SATA drives from the past three years have been just fine for me, and they work in my Rev 1 PowerMac G5 without any guesswork or drama, unlike most Seagates and Western Digitals.