Hard Dirve Deal?

[mad1]

What is the opinion of this deal?
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?prodzip=&product_code=278084

[S.D.Willie]

just bought one recently. i always stick with WD, and 30 gigs for a hundred bucks isnt too shabby.....
course though thats my opinion, i could be wrong

SD

[Warthog]

Yeah, that's probably about right.

What are you looking for in a hard drive? Do you want a low price or slightly higher price but excellent reliability? If you want the latter, go with IBM http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

I bought a 45gb IBM 75GXP Deskstar for $149.99 from Outpost.com with free shipping in December (not free anymore but still cheap).

Warthog

[mad1]

My Maxtor(40GB,7200RPM) just crashed,bad sector.Looking for a replacement with similar specifications.

[Mntsnow]

Send the Maxtor in for replacement! The 40 giggers havent been out more than 2 years and the warranty on them is 3 years!

Get a free replacement from Maxtor http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[mad1]

Purcahsed in February of 1999.I will get in touch with them.Will they warranty it for a "Bad Sector".Cannot run scandisk on the disk,locks at 18%.

Could not find the 45GB at Outpost.com.

[Mntsnow]

Yes
http://www.maxtor.com/product_support/warranty/default.htm

[mad1]

Purchased a hard drive from compusa and WIN 2000 Pro from another vendor.
Thanks for the info. on the warranty of the Maxtor Drive.

[moparboy]

I just got a 30gb quantum fireball 7200, 2mb buffer for $109 no rebate required from fry's

[wildbuffalo]

I am also using Maxtor, and two months back started having bad sectors poping up all over the drive (different partition), called Maxtor CS and they sent me new drive first (offcourse they asked for CC info)and I sent the bad one back (I paid for return shipping).

(But since you have already bought new drive, try the MAXBLAST utility which can do low level format and remove any bad sector problem.)

Wild

[mad1]

Might try some of the methods at,http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?src=search&id=r00320010108det03.htm, to get files off the drive before I return to Maxtor.
This time I will set up the operating system and programs files on one drive and make a copy on cd.

[This message has been edited by mad1 (edited 05-22-2001).]

[MalRic]

That's not bad I paid $129.00 for the same HD

[Cruez]

hmmm. I also had a Maxtor 30 gig drive that started spitting up bad sectors...sent it to them, ther replaced it. I like their service.

[mad1]

Called Maxtor today,
Explained my problem to a customer service representative. Maxtor is sending me another one,secured with credit card, drive.Old drive is to returned within 30 days.
Received new drive on Wednesday,waiting for Windows 2000 Pro.


[This message has been edited by mad1 (edited 05-24-2001).]

[Axel]

I'm with moparboy - I prefer Quantums - I haven't lost one yet - but I have lost several western digitals and have had lots of partitioning problems on them as well.... Could just be luck - but I doubt it.....