too bad the 160s are out of stock. Needed a few small HDs for some work computers.

Reg: Kiosk & GC

WOW. I never knew this could be done. Thanks much
I have a couple of store credits to use.

Can't find any store that has the 160 SATA.

quickNdirty said:Funny, that's my experience with western digital junk. LOL.

I will second that. I have only had 6 drives crash and die in the last 15 years and 5 of them were western digitals. The other one was a 40mb ibm that died in a power surge.

I haven't encounter problems with my drive.

nemi_amd said:rsuaver said:nemi_amd said:Sorry for being a noob but I have a $50 Staples card and can only use in store. What are the chances fo these prices being honored in store?

* Go to store
* Go to kiosk
* Place order with in-store payment
* Pay at the cashier with GC

Thanks - and I would end up with it mailing form Staples.com (assuming in stock) - or picking up from store shelf (assuming in stock)?

The kiosk order is a .com order, except you pay for it at the register if you wish. I'm not sure if there's a minimum s/h as it is online...

The 160GB drives are not OOS.

Edit: Whoops... meant to write _are OOS_. Sorry.

maxtor has always been decent for me. only drive that has ever died on me was a ibm deskstar

GWBush said:DrMilo said:Maxtor are the worst drives ever. All maxtor drives I owned died within a year or two, same with everyone else that I know that had one.

LOL... To blame Maxtor is about as smart as blaming the president for the economy but then again, that's just what people like you tend to do.

Well.. I disagree.. again .. may be its just me.. but blaming Maxtor is NOT remotely similar to blaming the President for the BAD economy.

Well when you assume you make an ass out of u and me.

I am not new to computers in anyway, I have worked with computers for more than 16 years, almost your age. I worked as a computer technician, which means I fixed computers and I have seen my share of hard drives and computer parts. I also build my own pcs and work as a computer programmer. I may have had a WD die here and there, but maxtor was the one that died all the time. Seagate drives are great. Yes any drive can die, but get a maxtor and you are almost guaranteed it will die out in 2-3 years if it makes it that long. I have a seagate in my pc right now and have another ordered. I have western digital drives from years ago from my multiple pcs that still run without any issue. My maxtor collection of drives is in the trash. But for blaming the President for the economy, yes I sure do, but this isn't a political forum. If maxtor works for you, great, my opinion of them stands. You can agree or disagree.

FYI, seagate accquired maxtor in 2006. I haven't bought any maxtor drives for years, it is possible since the acquisition by seagate, the new maxtor drives are better, but they would be seagate's low end drives.

GWBush said:DrMilo said:Maxtor are the worst drives ever. All maxtor drives I owned died within a year or two, same with everyone else that I know that had one.

LOL. Folks new to the computers crack me up. In my collection of dead hard drives, I have many WD, Maxtor, Seagate, Quantum, Conner Peripherals, Micropolis, and a few more I don't even remember the brands... The bottom line is that these hard mechanical devices spinning at high speed through fluctuating heat and and cold cycles. THEY WILL ALL DIE, some sooner than others and it's purely statstics that you're the unlucky one. Maybe yours fell off the truck and was sold for a "hot" deal or you were mean to the UPS man and he regularly drops your packages on purpose. To blame Maxtor is about as smart as blaming the president for the economy but then again, that's just what people like you tend to do.