EXCELSTOR Jupiter Series?

[RollingKeg]

Looking around for deals on egg and I stumbled across on new brand of HD (EXCELSTOR Jupiter Series). Pondered to myself (great newegg is supplying cheap no name brand HD). But changed my mind otherwise as i did further research. One of the reviews on egg if i recalled correctly said it was native to the IBM/Hitachi brand. Now I'm not sure if the facts of one of the reviewers stated true or not, but intrigues me if this is a quality brand that should be looked at. Googli-n around I did came across that Iomega now owns the ExcelStor group. Anyone here with more info regarding this company and if the drive may have potential?

 

[Zap]

Hello RollingKeg, and welcome to the forums.

The only "potential" I see in that drive is if you need to shave a few $ off your system build. Based on specs, those drives aren't anything special in the way of performance with 7200RPM, 8MB cache and at the most 160GB platters. Just checked on Newegg and the 80GB is only $3 cheaper than an equivalent WD brand, and the 160GB is only $1 cheaper than the equivalent Hitachi.

The other thing is that the EXCELSTOR brand drives have an OEM warranty, meaning no end user warranty (I just checked their site). This means they basically have a 1 year warranty through Newegg. See their site:

End Users
Kindly contact the retailer where you bought the product for the warranty service.
An end user is a customer who purchases ExcelStor products from a reseller, retailer, or online store.

I think $1-$3 is worth it for two more years warranty.

 

[RollingKeg]

Thanks for the warm welcome and thank you for your thoughts regarding this topic.