60GB 7200RPM Hard Drive $50 after $60MIR

[Cooky]

w00t, got a D740X Quiet Drive. I believe the only Maxtors that are ATA133 are the D740Xs and it said ATA133 on the label. Rebate is through new rochelle so i only pressed my luck with 1

Could anyone else pls confirm if the rebate is indeed being handled by TCA @ New Rochelle, NY??
I'm asking 'cause I want this drive soooo much but don't want to deal w/ TCA anymore.

So from the threads I've read it's a ATA133 drive despite the label says it's ATA100??

 

[GundamW]

Originally posted by: Cooky

w00t, got a D740X Quiet Drive. I believe the only Maxtors that are ATA133 are the D740Xs and it said ATA133 on the label. Rebate is through new rochelle so i only pressed my luck with 1

Could anyone else pls confirm if the rebate is indeed being handled by TCA @ New Rochelle, NY??
I'm asking 'cause I want this drive soooo much but don't want to deal w/ TCA anymore.

So from the threads I've read it's a ATA133 drive despite the label says it's ATA100??

Here is the rebate addr:
CompUSA Offer #8683
PO Box 821
New Rochelle, NY 10802-0821

Terms and Conditions:
".... If you have not received your check within 10 weeks, please visit: www.wheresmyrebate.com or call: 800-390-2344"

I am crossing my finger for a $60 check. Good luck to you all, too.

 

[emjem]

So from the threads I've read it's a ATA133 drive despite the label says it's ATA100??

MIne says ATA133 on the label. If you see a box with ATA100 on the label I would say ATA100 is what's in the box.

The rebate does go to New Rochelle.

 

[SpideyCU]

Yeah, those New Rochelle people are funny. When I put my e-mail address on the rebate forms, I usually get notification from them within a week or two of sending it out that they've received it and have approved my rebate. But then it's another 10-12 weeks on TOP of that before I actually get it. At least, that's the way it was with the last two I sent out.

 

[tops2]

compusa's rebates for me has always been slow. but as long as i get them, i don't mind. as long as it doesn't turn out like the philips 4x burner fiasco back then

 

[DorkBoy]

Awesome, Thanks

 

[Walliser]

I should have know better than believing anything someone emplyed by CompUSA will tell me. When asked if there is a limit on the rebates I've been told no, so I bought two drives. When I get home and am printing the rebate forms, what does it say? "Limit ONE gift card per person, receipt, household, family or address".

And yes, it is a CompUSA gift card, no cash check...

So one of the babies is going back to the store. Next time I will now better.

 

[WebDude]

Says "SOLD OUT!" on the web site. Have to check the local B&M store.

WebDude

 

[Mercenary]

Gift Card??? Bah! the add and the website looks like 60 cash back! What gives. A 60 gift card to me is not a 60 rebate.

 

[Gaard]

For the rebate I took my receipt down to the copy machine and made a copy. Is that good enough to send in with the rebate form?

 

[Walliser]

"Submit this Gift Card form completly filled out wiht a COPY of the sales receipt and the ORIGINAL UPC label form the package".

Usually they want the original, but not in this case. It's only a CompUSA "rebate" meaning: gift card.

 

[otisp]

Looks like all the B & Ms in SoCal are oos. Does CompUSA do rain checks?

 

[Walliser]

did you check online?
I checked online in my area (Philadelphia) and it said OOS but when I went to the Kinf of Prussia store they had shelves full of drives in some back room, didn't even bother opening the dispaly case.

so maybe you wanna call and check with the actual store.

 

[puppyfriend]

Originally posted by: otisp
Looks like all the B & Ms in SoCal are oos. Does CompUSA do rain checks?

Make sure you ask. When I got mine, the shelves were bare. All I had to do was look up though. There were stacks of them in the rafters above the shelves.

David

 

[MISMan]

Hey, I just got three of these, BUT they are the ATA-133. NE1 want to trade one of mine for an ATA-100? I need the 100 for RAID - the 133 are not compatable. I have not even opened the boxes yet

 

[Pothead]

Dude, I went to Compusa today and yesterday. I bought the sound card/speaker deal Sunday and came back Monday to buy another set and saw the shelves full of the 60 gigers.

 

[zmzhang]

This sucks, I went to compusa this afternoon and they were sold out and it isn't avaliable on the net. :|

 

[manko]

Hey, is anyone's drive making louder than normal clicking noises? I just got this drive to replace a dying WD, so I may be overly sensitive to drive noise right now...but this one seems to be a little loud (especially when doing a search or opening a directory with a lot of files). I ran ScanDisk and it checked out 100% ok (though it was making clicking noises during part of the test).

Is this the normal sound?

 

[suphu]

Originally posted by: manko
Hey, is anyone's drive making louder than normal clicking noises? I just got this drive to replace a dying WD, so I may be overly sensitive to drive noise right now...but this one seems to be a little loud (especially when doing a search or opening a directory with a lot of files). I ran ScanDisk and it checked out 100% ok (though it was making clicking noises during part of the test).

Is this the normal sound?

Did you run the Thorough Surface Scan in ScanDisk? I've had a Maxtor hard drive click on me before, when there was a lot of hard drive activity. I used the Surface Scan and turns out that there were bad sectors on the drive. So I called Maxtor and they told me to follow some steps to reformat (low & high level) the drive. It still clicked afterwards so they replaced mine with another.

 

[KaEdOgG]

Originally posted by: Yappy2002

Originally posted by: elfnumber1
How would one verifiy that this HDD is in fact a Maxtor drive? Would the label on the drive itself state Maxtor and the model number? This would be a hot deal if they are Maxtor's!

elf

How is the quality of Maxtor drive?
I like IBM HD.

Err... better than IBM... Maxtor's kick @$$

 

[stevejst]

>Also, which is faster a 120GB 5400RPM or a 60GB 7200RPM drive? The 120GB has higher density while the 60GB has faster spindle speed.

The main thing spinning the HD faster does is to decrease the time it takes to spin to the right spot on the initial seek/read. On commercial servers, where time is money, this can be a very big deal.

The max data rate feasible is governed by the bandwidth of the data separator, which is an expensive part of a HD. On consumer oriented drives they are probably the same on 7200/5400 drives, so the data rate used would be the same, resulting in lower density on the platter for the 7200. However spinning a drive faster makes the signal the head picks up stronger, improving signal to noise ratio, which should allow slightly lower, and therefore slightly denser, magnetic domains on the HD, without losing signal qualtity. But you would need a data separator with a higher bandwidth. On price-is-no-object SCSI drives, they use the best data separator they can obtain. That wouldn't make much sense on a $100 HD.

I run file system benchmark in Sandra and got that 7200 RPM was 20% faster than 5400 RPM. Both ATA 100 and 40 Gig.
The same exact overclocked Duron 900 system.
Corrected: 7200 is WD, 5400 is Maxtor. The content of the first was a drive copy of the second.
How is this relevant for everyday performance of PC is for another discussion.

Performance difference will be achieved with proper partitioning as well. Huge drive with one partition will be significantly slower than the one properly partitioned.

 

[Kelemvor]

Well, since you brought up Partitioning, what's the best way to do that these days? If you have a 40 gig drive, is 4 10's a good way to go? Or make the OS drive only like a gig or 2 and then have other drives for game installs and such? Not sure that it makes a huge difference, but it can't hurt.

 

[stevejst]

My recipe, picked up from others:
Small partition for the OS only, 10% of the drive, 15-20% logical partition for programs, the rest FAT32 logical storage. That is for the drives >=40 gigs. Logical storage also cut into pieces, one piece for drive/partition images backup, the rest for music, movies, images ...

If you use peer-to-peer software, one partition only for them since they induce heavy fragmentation.

If you are really a neat freak and assuming that you are using Windows, you can also separate swap file into the first partition on the disk, to get some minor speed gain. Linux does it by itself anyway.

 

[manko]

Originally posted by: suphu
Did you run the Thorough Surface Scan in ScanDisk? I've had a Maxtor hard drive click on me before, when there was a lot of hard drive activity. I used the Surface Scan and turns out that there were bad sectors on the drive. So I called Maxtor and they told me to follow some steps to reformat (low & high level) the drive. It still clicked afterwards so they replaced mine with another.

No bad sectors showed up with a full Check Disk scan in Windows 2000. The clicking is still there, though. I think I'll try to exchange it if I can.

 

[GoatHerderEd]

at the www site, they have:

In-Store Price: $49.99*
Internet Price: $41.36*

then you click on the price:

Regular Retail Price: $129.99 $129.99
-$20.00 -$20.00 Instant Saving

You Pay: $109.99 $109.99 Price after instant rebates, if any
-$60.00 -$60.00 Mfr. Mail-in Rebate


$49.99 $49.99 Price after instant & mail-in rebates

interesting internet price