Here SATA-300, 16mb cache We've seen quite a few SATA deals recently, so this is warm at best. What makes this interesting is that I don't think you can find this without the link, by simply browsing through categories, or even searching the model# or catalog#. This is a retail kit, and according to these reviews this drive is the same as a Seagate ST3320620AS, which is a 7200.10 16mb 320gb model. 3-year warranty vs 5-year for Seagate. I need a drive, but feel that $90-100+ for 400-500gb is more than I can use, so this Maxtor is right where I want to be on size & price. Any creative FWers out there can come up with a good PM scenario to make this hot?
Update: Now it is showing in the category (retail kits-sata).
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posted: Apr. 28, 2007 @ 12:38a
TJSV
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posted: Apr. 28, 2007 @ 1:23a
As you said, this is warm. The actual Segate 320GB SATA-II is $80 shipped at Newegg.com PM is tough as no other store seems to be carrying this model.
IMO, get the 500GB Samsung for $120 from the egg - you can never have too much storage
steveobb
Senior Member
posted: Apr. 28, 2007 @ 8:44p
I bought two at this price. They are indeed 320GB not 300GB. I put them in a Stripe RAID. They are very fast. I wouldn't mind a third.
But at 21.9 cents per Gigabyte about what drives are going for. Thus for a lot of storage a 400 or 500GB drive might well be a better deal. Sometimes you can even find 750 GB drives for near this.
will Staples do a pm over the phone if you order from their site?
i guess it could be made a bit better with ink coupons..or if you're one of the lucky people who has a fry's nearby and it's in an ad somewhere (or the local Staples will call to check), you could try at b&m with a $15 off $75 and some far filler.. at about 21¢/gb though, it still beats current prices on 500gbs..
lebaron said: What makes this interesting is that I don't think you can find this without the link, by simply browsing through categories, or even searching the model# or catalog#.That's just frys' terrible website. You can't even find an internal Maxtor drive by searching "Maxtor"; you have to search for "MXT"
I mean come on. It's 2007 already. I've found many a deal @ fry's, but their website is almost as bad as Buy.com's.
Sorry Im kinda a newbie with replacing comp hardware. Will this replace/swap out the measly 80GB thats in the Dell E521 that I ordered from the deal a few days ago? Thanks
chbuzz said: Sorry Im kinda a newbie with replacing comp hardware. Will this replace/swap out the measly 80GB thats in the Dell E521 that I ordered from the deal a few days ago? ThanksYes, but you might have to disable "DataSafe" if you have it. I don't know which particular configuration you ordered, but if you have DataSafe you might actually have TWO 80GB hard drives set to mirror eachother. Mirroring will only work with drives of identical size, so if you just swap one out and stick this 300GB drive in, you might only be able to use 80GB with DataSafe enabled.
anyone ever had any problems with these maxtor SATA drives? the past year or so, i've been buying these maxtor hd deals. ALL of these drives have came back with dead blocks after being used for around 1 year. I'd like to stay away from maxtor because of this, but maybe they've fixed their problem after being bought by segate.
I had a Maxtor 160gb SATA fail 2 weeks ago which I bought in a retail box at Microcenter 5 months ago.
It took a while to diagnose as my PC would only boot to a "Failure Loading OS" message following a spontaneous reboot.
I wouldn't post this, except what happened after that may be of interest to others buying Maxtor drives. When I went to the Seagtae site, I was informed that my drive was an OEM drive and was not warranted. I called and was told the same thing. I explained that this was a retail kit drive, and was told to fax in receipt. I did so along with a copy of the label on the box. I then received an email from Seagate again claiming it was OEM and not warranted. I sent a sarcastic reply and told them that if they had bothered to look at the photocopy I faxed it showed not only a retail kit label but the retail kit box as well. I then headed to MicroCenter who gave me a new Seagate 160gb without a quibble, although they were flabbergasted at the drivvle that Seagate was saying about this being an OEM drive.
This was actually the first hard drive failure I've experienced since I bought by first 20mb PC in 1986. Mostly I've used Maxtors and Seagates and been happy. But I was certainly not impressed with Segates product support. Not only did they give me the B*S about it being they also require you to run their diagnostic utility and submit a printout showing the drive was defective. When I tried to run their stupid utility it made me download and install netframework 2 from Microsoft. And the stupid utility does not have an option to print a report-I had to do a screen shot. How you would do this if a Seagate boot drive failed is unclear, and I'm sure requiring you to download software fropm an unrelated company to make a warranty claim is patently illegal. Thank goodness I bought it at Microcenter. I'm moving on to Hitachi or WD drives from now on.
NRG said: anyone ever had any problems with these maxtor SATA drives? the past year or so, i've been buying these maxtor hd deals. ALL of these drives have came back with dead blocks after being used for around 1 year. I'd like to stay away from maxtor because of this, but maybe they've fixed their problem after being bought by segate.
It's weird about drive (and video) loyalty. I was a huge WD fan... Then I had a pile (2 or 3) of 850gig IDE drives go out on me within 6 months, so I switched to Maxtor. Guy in my QA lab at work says WDs still suck. Then I had a Maxtor crash and found a Seagate drive on sale - asked the guy in front of me in line who had one (it was BF) and he said "yeah, they're good". So, I bought one. Haven't switched to anyone yet. I'm looking for drives for my NAS, so... I think I'll wait until I can get a decent sale on Seagates.
Who knows about Samsung, or anyone else... They might be fine too. But currently no WD's for me.
chinnboy said: I had a Maxtor 160gb SATA fail 2 weeks ago which I bought in a retail box at Microcenter 5 months ago.
It took a while to diagnose as my PC would only boot to a "Failure Loading OS" message following a spontaneous reboot.
I wouldn't post this, except what happened after that may be of interest to others buying Maxtor drives. When I went to the Seagtae site, I was informed that my drive was an OEM drive and was not warranted. I called and was told the same thing. I explained that this was a retail kit drive, and was told to fax in receipt. I did so along with a copy of the label on the box. I then received an email from Seagate again claiming it was OEM and not warranted. I sent a sarcastic reply and told them that if they had bothered to look at the photocopy I faxed it showed not only a retail kit label but the retail kit box as well. I then headed to MicroCenter who gave me a new Seagate 160gb without a quibble, although they were flabbergasted at the drivvle that Seagate was saying about this being an OEM drive.
This was actually the first hard drive failure I've experienced since I bought by first 20mb PC in 1986. Mostly I've used Maxtors and Seagates and been happy. But I was certainly not impressed with Segates product support. Not only did they give me the B*S about it being they also require you to run their diagnostic utility and submit a printout showing the drive was defective. When I tried to run their stupid utility it made me download and install netframework 2 from Microsoft. And the stupid utility does not have an option to print a report-I had to do a screen shot. How you would do this if a Seagate boot drive failed is unclear, and I'm sure requiring you to download software fropm an unrelated company to make a warranty claim is patently illegal. Thank goodness I bought it at Microcenter. I'm moving on to Hitachi or WD drives from now on.
NRG said: anyone ever had any problems with these maxtor SATA drives? the past year or so, i've been buying these maxtor hd deals. ALL of these drives have came back with dead blocks after being used for around 1 year. I'd like to stay away from maxtor because of this, but maybe they've fixed their problem after being bought by segate.
funny you mention that. two of my RETAIL maxtor pata 160gb (a Office Depot deal a year ago) shows up as OEM when i tried to RMA it. I've worked on plenty of computers and never had a segate hd fail on me. One WD and many maxtor.
but from what people are saying. Are they "rebadged" or exactly like the segate ST3320620AS? (open up the maxtor box and see a segate lable on the drive -type of deal)
chinnboy said: I had a Maxtor 160gb SATA fail 2 weeks ago which I bought in a retail box at Microcenter 5 months ago. ... I then received an email from Seagate again claiming it was OEM and not warranted. ...Not only did they give me the B*S about it being they also require you to run their diagnostic utility and submit a printout showing the drive was defective.
I haven't warrantied a seagate drive in quite some time so I hope you just got some numskull support person, but the way it used to work was they would "recommend" you run their diag utilty. They would also offer a "cross ship" option for a price. You could pay a set price for them to send you a new replacement, then you box up the failed drive in it's package and send it back. Once they've got your failed one and confirm it's bad they credit you back all the money minus a set price ($20?, not sure since I never did it).
chinnboy said: Not only did they give me the B*S about it being they also require you to run their diagnostic utility and submit a printout showing the drive was defective. When I tried to run their stupid utility it made me download and install netframework 2 from Microsoft. And the stupid utility does not have an option to print a report-I had to do a screen shot. How you would do this if a Seagate boot drive failed is unclear, and I'm sure requiring you to download software fropm an unrelated company to make a warranty claim is patently illegal. Thank goodness I bought it at Microcenter. I'm moving on to Hitachi or WD drives from now on. That's amazing. I would think that drive diagnostic tools should be on a bootable floppy/CD. The fact that it requires Windows at all to run, boggles my mind.
WD's diag tool boots, and gives you an easy diag code at the end.
Got this today and it was indeed the Seagate 320 72000.10 with perpendicular recording. Only downside is the 3 year warranty compared to seagate. However, the $70 price AR (pricegrabber) and tax and being a retail kit, it compares well with the OEM Seagate at Newegg for $80. BTW, will the original seagate and this rebranded maxtor work in a raid config? Thanks.
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