Seagate PATA 300gb/Maxtor 300gb SATA = $69.99 each Shipped!

[tealk]

Maxtor 300gb SATA


Not bad, I've bought twice the 300gb maxtors and both have come as 320gb (300+20gb bonus) Which was a decent dealio!

Links fixed as per Shinare request!

Seagate 300gb PATA

 

[Shinare]

Is it really that hard to press the "http" link button when posting? Your linkies no workie, I had to copy and paste them.

 

[nekote]

Seagate:
PATA
5 year warranty
7200 RPM
16MB buffer

(though 16MB not worth almost anything, vs 8MB)
(Tom's Hardware 8MB vs. 16MB)


Maxtor:
SATA
3 year warranty
7200 RPM
16MB buffer
NCQ (Native Command Queing)

 

[tealk]

There are you happy now Shinare?

 

[rip]

Originally posted by: Shinare
Is it really that hard to press the "http" link button when posting? Your linkies no workie, I had to copy and paste them.

WOW, hope you didn't hurt your finger. :Q

 

[superHARD]

Originally posted by: rip

Originally posted by: Shinare
Is it really that hard to press the "http" link button when posting? Your linkies no workie, I had to copy and paste them.

WOW, hope you didn't hurt your finger. :Q

 

[PingSpike]

In for 1! Thanks OP...for forcing me to waste more money!

 

[mundhra]

in for 2 seagates (delaying the inevitable sata upgrade).

thanks op.

 

[neocor]

My eyes lit up and thought RAID 0 I am coming.
But then decided to wait. No need at this time.

A good deal neverthless.

neo

 

[imported_nocturne]

7200rpm 320gb sata2 seagate... almost always on sale for $80 ($75 when there is a coupon) at the egg

 

[MrPickins]

I'm in for one also!

Thanks, OP

 

[EKKC]

i used to say "maxtors, seagate, wd, hitachi all have similar failure rate"
but the latest batch has moved my stance on hard drives in general. i bought 2 maxtor 500GBs, 2 out of that 2 had ultra slow (unuseable) transfer rates. my friend bought a 500GB too. same thing. we refunded them all back to frys.com (they are great and quick with the crediting though... super quick so it may be worth the gamble for some of you.)

and then i found out 2 out of 4 300GB maxtors i had running in a RAID5 NAS had the same symptoms, when the time came to finally replace all of them to 500GB Seagates, i sent them both back to seagate for RMA. they gave me newer 2007 manufactured ones, but i have yet to test them out.

cliffs: be VERY weary of all Diamondmax 10 manfactured by Maxtor in the latter half of 2006 the whole batch has problems

 

[chazzzer]

FYI: The PATA deal is dead.

 

[PingSpike]

DHL apparently lost my package...says it was delivered, no signiture on file but no package at my house. Lovely.

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: EKKC
i used to say "maxtors, seagate, wd, hitachi all have similar failure rate"
but the latest batch has moved my stance on hard drives in general. i bought 2 maxtor 500GBs, 2 out of that 2 had ultra slow (unuseable) transfer rates. my friend bought a 500GB too. same thing. we refunded them all back to frys.com (they are great and quick with the crediting though... super quick so it may be worth the gamble for some of you.)

and then i found out 2 out of 4 300GB maxtors i had running in a RAID5 NAS had the same symptoms, when the time came to finally replace all of them to 500GB Seagates, i sent them both back to seagate for RMA. they gave me newer 2007 manufactured ones, but i have yet to test them out.

cliffs: be VERY weary of all Diamondmax 10 manfactured by Maxtor in the latter half of 2006 the whole batch has problems

The whole batch has problems? Do you have ANY proof to back that up? Complete and utter BS.

Price isn't ok, but not hot. It seems about normal. You can get 320GB for $75.

 

[nekote]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: EKKCcliffs: be VERY weary of all Diamondmax 10 manfactured by Maxtor in the latter half of 2006 the whole batch has problems

The whole batch has problems? Do you have ANY proof to back that up? Complete and utter BS.

Sure do wish there was a simple and reliable way to track such "lemon" reports in a statistically meaningful way, separate from the manufacturer.

Anybody heard / know of a way to do that?

For more or less any product?

That could accomodate the heavy overweighting from people who have trouble, versus the universe of (good?) experience with a particular product?

 

[bucfanmike]

in for one of the maxtors, thanks

 

[EKKC]

Originally posted by: nekote

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: EKKCcliffs: be VERY weary of all Diamondmax 10 manfactured by Maxtor in the latter half of 2006 the whole batch has problems

The whole batch has problems? Do you have ANY proof to back that up? Complete and utter BS.

Sure do wish there was a simple and reliable way to track such "lemon" reports in a statistically meaningful way, separate from the manufacturer.

Anybody heard / know of a way to do that?

For more or less any product?

That could accomodate the heavy overweighting from people who have trouble, versus the universe of (good?) experience with a particular product?

it may be me, but 4 out of 4 drives for me, and 1 out of 1 for my friend, that's 100% rate for me. i may just be that unlucky. not sure

 

[bucfanmike]

well i got my maxtor very quickly. it came with a sticker that said 20 gigabytes free and is actually a 320 gb drive. will install later this week

 

[Kato]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
DHL apparently lost my package...says it was delivered, no signiture on file but no package at my house. Lovely.

DHL will leave packages in plain view to the street without ringing the door bell or knocking. I heard some noise on the porch so I went to check and found a box sitting there. Fry's shipping box has FRYS.COM written in large red letters so I'd say someone has a free new HD.

 

[bucfanmike]

Originally posted by: Kato

Originally posted by: PingSpike
DHL apparently lost my package...says it was delivered, no signiture on file but no package at my house. Lovely.

DHL will leave packages in plain view to the street without ringing the door bell or knocking. I heard some noise on the porch so I went to check and found a box sitting there. Fry's shipping box has FRYS.COM written in large red letters so I'd say someone has a free new HD.

yep.was home all day today and went to go outside and my hard drive was sitting outside my door. youd think they would at least knock

 

[daveshel]

Not found.

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: EKKC

it may be me, but 4 out of 4 drives for me, and 1 out of 1 for my friend, that's 100% rate for me. i may just be that unlucky. not sure

4 out of 4 means you have something else wrong with your computer that is corrupting the drives. Either not enough power from the PSU, overclocking maybe, PSU going bad and spiking or things along those lines.

But to lie and say that 100% of all drives from Seagate/Maxtor is bad from the 4Q of 2006 is total BS. You're misleading people and have no data to back it up.

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: bucfanmike
well i got my maxtor very quickly. it came with a sticker that said 20 gigabytes free and is actually a 320 gb drive. will install later this week

Yep, the drive I got is a 320 GB Maxtor branded drive, but it says something like "Manufactured by Seagate" and also "7200.10" on it.

 

[PingSpike]

Well my package materialized on my front step a day after it said it was delivered.