300GB/16MB Maxtor - $149

[sm8000]

http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?level=SK&id=774952

That's non-SATA, btw

[ukulele]

Why only a one year warranty? When you loose that one and it's full up you really eat it.

[Steve R Jones]

Looks like it's a no-name brand...

For another 50 bucks you can get sata and three years..

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=22-144-359&DEPA=0

[CrazyCrusher]

the model number comes up as a maxtor but it dosent say its a max, does that mean they have a bunch of bad drives they want to junk?

[j.m@talk]

Originally posted by Steve R Jones
Looks like it's a no-name brand...


Oh Contrair (sp)

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=L01R300&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official

[sm8000]

Maybe it's an OEM drive rather than retail? At work right now, will have to follow up with more research later.


Is that one year warranty Office Depot's or Maxtor's?

[j.m@talk]

Ahh Good ole UK .......... Electrical goods
gotta have minimum 12M Gtee no matter how its sold...........:t

[RamonGTP]

If you look at the product details, it says that the brand name is Maxtor and the manufacturer is maxtor.

oops, didn't realize this thread was two weeks old... I guess posts in here don't move along quite as rapidly as the other forums

[tweakerpc]

i do not like maxtor, they are nosiy:rolleyes:

[ukulele]

Originally posted by tweakerpc
i do not like maxtor, they are nosiy:rolleyes:

Noise? You don't like the noise? I worry about it when my drives don't make noise. ;)

[tweakerpc]

It is not the niose, it is the type of noise, to me it is fingernails on a chalk board:eek: :eek:

[ukulele]

I have three maxtors and can barely hear any of them. Now the Seagate SATA is loud, but the extra speed is worth it.

[Lord AnthraX]

Even better deadl
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101220-1

Never had a problem with WD, only Maxtor's and IBM's.

[sm8000]

So for three dollars less I can lose 50GB? That's great!

[Lord AnthraX]

Originally posted by sm8000
So for three dollars less I can lose 50GB? That's great!
The link was meant to contradict the First one, not the second NewEgg link. The new price is $259.97 for a 300Gb NON-SATA insted of 146$ for a 250Gb SATA

[tweakerpc]

Hey i like my western digital!:rolleyes:

[sm8000]

Originally posted by Lord AnthraX
The link was meant to contradict the First one, not the second NewEgg link. The new price is $259.97 for a 300Gb NON-SATA insted of 146$ for a 250Gb SATA


Dang, I didn't see that my price had gone back up. My bad. I only said it 'cuz it's what my thread's about ;)


BTW, there's little, if any, advantage to SATA. It's still ATA ;)

[Lord AnthraX]

SATA can be used for RAID assemblies and it has a little bigger cache usually.

[sm8000]

All ATA can do RAID ;) Go look at the IDE RAID controllers offered by Promise, Highpoint, 3ware, and SIIG, for example.

I think SATA's only advantages are (in some cases) the bigger cache, and the one drive per cable to prevent the locked bus issue that is part of the ATA spec.