This looks to be a pretty good deal. Why all the negatives?
Might drop by and pick this up at fry's on the way home today. Anyone know if there is a tool available to copy of very xp home c drive to this new drive and have it all work ok? I have added plenty of secondary drives to systems, but never replaced the system drive. I currently have a Dell 8400 with a 75g drive.
I don't understand the red. $100 for 500GB SATA-II, if only I could confirm that it has the 5-year warranty? Shipping seems to hold around $8 no matter how many you order... this might be the time to put that RAID array together if you've been waiting.
Ubercheap said: I don't understand the red. $100 for 500GB SATA-II, if only I could confirm that it has the 5-year warranty? Shipping seems to hold around $8 no matter how many you order... this might be the time to put that RAID array together if you've been waiting.
DarkHelmet said: This looks to be a pretty good deal. Why all the negatives?
Might drop by and pick this up at fry's on the way home today. Anyone know if there is a tool available to copy of very xp home c drive to this new drive and have it all work ok? I have added plenty of secondary drives to systems, but never replaced the system drive. I currently have a Dell 8400 with a 75g drive.
I think retail MAxtor hard drives come with a copy of MAxBlast which does the imaging over of your old hardrive to your new.
funnyusa said: it is 5 years. I just bout 8 of them last month.
Thanks, I just confirmed by a phone to seagate too. They said it's changed to five years for drives purchased since they took over.
birdie800
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posted: Apr. 27, 2007 @ 3:55p
I called a local Fry's earlier today and the person said it was OEM, but did have a 5YR warranty on it. Since it's OEM, it won't have the SATA cable and installation disk. Not sure if this is true at all locations, but just an FYI for the one in Fountain Valley.
user3657 said: LexTalionis said: wtf? dead, dead, dead, went to 3 post all dead...frys.com has been posting the carrot on a stick for quick and then gone!
yep..maybe oos online????
The online deal is dead, but B&M is alive until 5/1.
picked one up at the b&m 109 +tax. used the maxblast software to clone my c drive and am now running fine with 500 mb as my primary drive. Been running all night and is currently 44c temp. I have a segate 160g right above it in the case and it is running at 38 C. So this drive does run a bit hotter then my segate at least. what is the danger level for the temp to hit? When should I be worried?
BTW, the maxblast software is really cool. IT cloned my old c drive while the new drive was attached using a sata to usb cable. It was a bit slow because the usb. But I was too lazy to crack the case before testing out how to clone the drive.
edit:
here is the performance numbers using Hd Tune utility:
HD Tune: Maxtor 7H500F0 Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 28.8 MB/sec Transfer Rate Maximum : 71.5 MB/sec Transfer Rate Average : 54.9 MB/sec Access Time : 14.1 ms Burst Rate : 87.3 MB/sec CPU Usage : 8.8%
Are these respecatble? I thought the seek was supose to be 8.5ms
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