500 Gig Maxtor SATA300 now $130, no rebate, limit 2

[hukim0531]

Wow great deal. Thanks!

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: Greg04

Originally posted by: wazzledoozle

Originally posted by: leggomyeggroll

Originally posted by: wazzledoozle

Originally posted by: leggomyeggroll
500 > 250?? I can tell you went to MIT with that kind of math skills!

Originally posted by: RelaxTheMind

Originally posted by: leggomyeggroll
newegg has a 250 gig for 69.99 which is pretty much the same deal in terms of gig/$ ratio

500gb > 250gb

good one, are you an english teacher?

Nope, highschool junior.

When I was in high school (1984-87) there was this guy that CLAIMED he had a 10MB hard drive. I didn't believe such a thing existed...ah the good old days.

My dad's old Tandy 1000 had a 30MB hard drive. Yes, 30 MEGABYTES. I find that scenario to be plausible, but that guy must have had like $500 to burn.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: ariafrost

Originally posted by: Greg04

Originally posted by: wazzledoozle

Originally posted by: leggomyeggroll

Originally posted by: wazzledoozle

Originally posted by: leggomyeggroll
500 > 250?? I can tell you went to MIT with that kind of math skills!

Originally posted by: RelaxTheMind

Originally posted by: leggomyeggroll
newegg has a 250 gig for 69.99 which is pretty much the same deal in terms of gig/$ ratio

500gb > 250gb

good one, are you an english teacher?

Nope, highschool junior.

When I was in high school (1984-87) there was this guy that CLAIMED he had a 10MB hard drive. I didn't believe such a thing existed...ah the good old days.

My dad's old Tandy 1000 had a 30MB hard drive. Yes, 30 MEGABYTES. I find that scenario to be plausible, but that guy must have had like $500 to burn.

there were 10mb hard drives in the XT days. 1984 era seems about right.

my dad i know had a 20 mb one on his 286-8

 

[htne]

The IBM XT shipped in 1983 or 1984 with a 10 megabyte hard drive. I remember buying quantity 6 external hard drives with 16 megabyte capacity in 1984. We got a break on the price by buying 6 at once, it was something like $1,600 each.

 

[jjmIII]

 

[Niege]

I had a 10mb on my Kaypro 10 that I got in 1983. It was the first non-IBM machine with a hard drive. And.... a 4Mhz Z80 chip with 64K of RAM. I had more computing power than some third world countries. Hot!!

 

[PoopyPants]

yeah so what,, the drive is $129 bucks now... buy buy buy

 

[CtlAltl33t]

Showing as $199 for me, looks like it's dead

 

[CherryBOMB]

Originally posted by: CtlAltl33t
Showing as $199 for me, looks like it's dead

Yep - ElDeadO same here. Was going to buy one today - henc said through 12-31
My chips are off ..... On to the next
-CB

 

[palswim]

I just bought one for $139.99 in-store today. But I see the $129.99 is back online with free shipping as well!

Anyone know if you can use Fry's gift cards online?

 

[kevman]

Originally posted by: cheesecurd

So did anyone ever come to a real conclusion as to the quality of these drives?

We use 500GB Maxtor SATAs (not these specifically) in our mail severs (8 of them) that process an absolutely insane amount of mail each day (hundreds of thousands of mailboxes) -- haven't had any real problems with them.

tsk...tsk....mail not on the SAN? BOOO!!!!

 

[conehead433]

I couldn't resist and ordered one. Tax added here in Georgia though.

 

[Beast]

it was too tempting..in for 1..

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Why couldn't it be the Seagate 7200.10?

 

[valkyriex]

Is the drive noisy? I've used Maxtor HDs before and they've always been really loud compared to WD or Seagate. This is a great deal and I'm tempted to get it, but if the drive is unbearingly loud, I might just have to pass.

 

[DukeN]

Is Raid 0+1 slower than just a single drive of the same type? Thx.

 

[IGBT]

..will w XP fully rerecognize the full 500 gigs?

 

[marulee]

Good deal. Thanks.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: WhoBeDaPlaya
Why couldn't it be the Seagate 7200.10?

more importantly, why couldn't it have been PATA... I have an external case that needs a HD upgrade. I don't want to give up the case

 

[palswim]

Originally posted by: IGBT
..will w XP fully rerecognize the full 500 gigs?

I think anything after SP1 will. My SP2 recognized, partitioned, and formatted it just fine.

 

[us3rnotfound]

Originally posted by: palswim

Originally posted by: IGBT
..will w XP fully rerecognize the full 500 gigs?

I think anything after SP1 will. My SP2 recognized, partitioned, and formatted it just fine.

But Windows will say it has 465 GB.

 

[R64]

500,000,000,000 Bytes / (1024*1024*1024) = 465GB

 

[allies]

These don't have perp recording do they (basically a rebadged 7200.10)?

 

[us3rnotfound]

Originally posted by: allies
These don't have perp recording do they (basically a rebadged 7200.10)?

It's Maxt0r. No.

 

[funnyfenix]

Originally posted by: us3rnotfound

Originally posted by: allies
These don't have perp recording do they (basically a rebadged 7200.10)?

It's Maxt0r. No.

guys, this is enterprise class HD, it is maxline pro