Maxtor 250GB 8MB 7200 UATA 133 HDD Retail $119 Outpost.com

[gshock888]

worried? buy 2 and run raid1! still cheaper than some other 250GB drives!!! ROFL!

also newegg prices arent as hot as it used to be. still hot for many DVDR products and 9800pro cards, but i stopped using them as much after being screwed over on hard drives, routers, etc...

 

[uwannawhat]

Recieved mine today.

Fomating on my desktop as I type.

Awesome deal for an 'Ultra' Drive!

 

[golgotha]

This deal is pretty good, but you can only buy 1 per person/address.
As gshock888 mentioned, CompUSA has these for sale at 199.99 - 50 instant rebate = 129.99 + tax (9.10here) = 139.09 out the door. ($0.56/GB)
The Outpost sale with shipping and tax (if they have a warehouse in your state, you get taxed) = ~139.68 shipped.

So, about the same price, but there is no purchase limit at CompUSA, plus they had about twenty boxes on display.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: golgotha
This deal is pretty good, but you can only buy 1 per person/address.
As gshock888 mentioned, CompUSA has these for sale at 199.99 - 50 instant rebate = 129.99 + tax (9.10here) = 139.09 out the door. ($0.56/GB)
The Outpost sale with shipping and tax (if they have a warehouse in your state, you get taxed) = ~139.68 shipped.

So, about the same price, but there is no purchase limit at CompUSA, plus they had about twenty boxes on display.

199.99 - 50 = 129.99? What kind of math is that?

 

[Ne0]

Originally posted by: golgotha
This deal is pretty good, but you can only buy 1 per person/address.
As gshock888 mentioned, CompUSA has these for sale at 199.99 - 50 instant rebate = 129.99 + tax (9.10here) = 139.09 out the door. ($0.56/GB)
The Outpost sale with shipping and tax (if they have a warehouse in your state, you get taxed) = ~139.68 shipped.

So, about the same price, but there is no purchase limit at CompUSA, plus they had about twenty boxes on display.

$127 shipped here at outpost.com

 

[edm]

Where does it say Maxtor on the outpost page?

 

[astartz]

It does not say maxtor. But it says Max Blast and that is a maxtor tool.

Plus I receved mine yesterday and its a Maxtor

 

[edm]

Cool, thanks. Gonna place my order now, same drive is $215 at Buy.com and $220 at newegg. Awesome deal!!!

 

[Anomander]

Dont know if it's been mentioned before, but I'm pretty sure it's $119 in-store at Fry's. I was at the San Jose one Saturday and saw one left, not sure about re-stocking more and other Fry's locations. IIRC it was the exact same one (Maxtor 250GB 8mb 7200 UATA 133).

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: gshock888
CompUSA is having this at 129.99 no rebates. Add only local TAX...
check out their site for inventory first!! might be flying off shelves quite fast...

Me reckon this might be a permanent price drop on this 250GB monster.
When will Seagate follow?

I think that it basically is the new retail price of these, considering how many of these "only $129, no rebate!" sales that they have been having on this drive.

I'm not sure why Seagate would follow though, I would be willing to pay more for a better drive with a better warranty. I'm not all that impressed with the Maxtor 250GB DM+9 that I purchased from CompUSA a couple of months back on sale.

 

[gshock888]

iis not the greatest.but i bought it from compusa 2-3 months ago possibly on that same deal, and scored one more in outpost. now im gonna set up a RAID0 or RAID1 (500GB monster or redundancy? hmm)

but your right, i have 3 seagates 200GB and i'd store all my important data in there. maxtor might not be the best, but for the price, it'd be great to store video, movies you DL, etc...

by the way, outpost and compusa doesnt say maxtor, which is weird, these are RETAIL MAXTOR drives, not even rebadged... why dont they advertise that is beyond me

 

[lazarus000]

weird ... got mine and started the format etc....


was making clicking sounds as it we reading/writing. Sounded like the card/tire spokes thingy.

click,click,click,click,click...


after a day or so of running the clicking just stopped ... now it's running silent as can be.



i guess it needed to "lube" itself up or something

 

[misterj]

i got fry's to pricematch the online ad from compusa a few weeks ago

 

[Nick5324]

I live in the great state of Ohio, where there is no Fry's, yet we pay tax on outpost.com orders. Woot! Good deal BTW.

 

[Kipper]

Originally posted by: Nick5324
I live in the great state of Ohio, where there is no Fry's, yet we pay tax on outpost.com orders. Woot! Good deal BTW.

There is probably a warehouse there.

 

[gshock888]

or maybe they're moving east finally! opening soon??? they have presence in illinois...
come to nyc already

 

[Aar0n]

found this on their site and then happened upon the thread. could have saved myself some time and checked here first... oh well, it's a nice deal

 

[freestyuldust]

Ordered this on 8/19 at 10:15pm EST. I chose NextDay shipping and it got here 8/20 at noon. AWESOME!!

Oh yah, I live in Michigan.. it came straight from an Airborne facility in Ohio (guess they have 'em in stock at the shipping warehouse?)

 

[Falloutboy]

you guys should try pming to staples I got mine for 95ish after tax pming it to staples and using a coupon. (I know its YMMV with PMing and coupons but i got it no problem). what I did was call them and order it then called 5 min later and do the pm went pretty easy they tried to knock on shipping but I told them I"m pming to fry's not outpost and they took the shipping off also.

 

[gshock888]

now shows 179.99 AGAIN but is 119.99 SHIPPED FREE

 

[servicemonkey]

oredered one last week to replace a dying 80GB IBM drive. Started transferring my files and the brand new drive died-----CLICK CLICK CLICK. First Maxtor I've ever had fail. And I lost about ~70GB worth of data:brokenheart:

 

[gshock888]

bummer.

with the cheap prices now for HDD, consider running RAID1 on cheap drives like these for important data

if you have Raptor SATA, SCSI drives, etc, then run RAID0 or no RAID, you'd still be safe (although still at risk)

 

[LucJoe]

Just tried to add it to cart, it came up as 179.99 (not 119.99) and it tried to charge for shipping.

Dead?

 

[gshock888]

check frequently
the price on this baby fluctuates daily (if not hourly) :clock:

 

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