Maxtor 7H500F0 500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive $100 + S/H @ Fry's Archived From: Hot Deals |
Come on free shipping! If you wait until tomorrow, they may offer free shipping. I'll wait.
I have a 300GB version of this same drive and it runs very quiet and maybe a little hot. But as long as you don't have it stacked right next to other drives this shouldn't be a problem.
so temped to get two for my mirrored setup.
Ahh i just burnt myself! HOTTT! thanks
MaXLine Pros were Maxtor's SATA drives for 'nearline' enterprise storage (analogous to Seagate's 'NL' and 'ES' series drives). This means they actually are intended to archive large quantities of semi-current data (like the older pr0n you rarely now look up). Nearline drives aren't supposed to run 24/7, but they are intended to run more reliably than consumer 'desktop' drives.
Why am I still inclined to prefer a Seagate desktop drive? Someone restore my senses...
I do not like the Maxtor brand, but this the MaXLine Pro 7 series so it is one of the higher quality drives.
Tempted to get it, but will resist as I have plenty of space left and don't see myself filling the free space anytime soon.
Anyways these drives run fairly hot so you must have air cooling atleast. And as always run a full "surface scan/test" before you start using it for whatever you want.
Winterpool said:... do you really want to risk losing 500 GB of your hard-earned pr0n? ... If you're actually trying to work with the stuff, I shudder to think how much data it would take up.
I don't like the idea of risking 500GB at all no matter who the mfgr is. Considering video, however, it takes up huge swaths of hard drive space. For that kind of data, say capturing uncompressed video (maybe Huffyuv lossless compression), the amount of disk space you need is outrageous. But only temporarily. As long as you have the original and the end result is burned on DVD then even if the drive crashes hard you haven't really lost anything.
I bought an extra 160GB drive a year ago with the idea that I was going to use it for all my video projects. By the time I got around to starting some of them the drive was half full of other stuff, and 80GB is nothing when you're editing video or mixing hours of CD-quality uncompressed audio together. This drive looks great for that purpose.
Finally, 500GB drives makes the $0.2/gig mark 
Naysayers who claim 500 GBs is probably those people who aren't serious about d/l'ing and/or BT'ing. I already have in excess of 1 TB of audio / video that is better off being accessed via a server than thru consumable media - and I am not nearly a hardcore user.
I can't wait for even larger drives to come out - I'm anxious to go ahead and jukebox my 700+ DVDs and put the actual physical copies into storage.
[Q= said:valleypoboy]
I stick to my first comment when talking about a 500GB drive: "size is probably not necessary"
This is a nice drive for those who like to DVR TV series, and don't want to have to delete the episode...</blockquote>
Okay, for those of you actually concerned about the thermal profile of your hard drives: the MaXLine Pro 500 GB was measured dissipating 14.5 watts when seeking, 9 watts when idle. For comparison, a 250 GB Seagate 7200.9 generation desktop drive dissipated 10.6 watts whilst seeking, 6.7 watts idle. If actual thermal radiation correlates with operating power, the Maxtor may put out 1/3 more heat into the atmosphere (or your well-ventilated computer case -- your case is well-ventilated, no?).
Nearline drives are supposed to sit in big storage arrays in a well-cooled server room. As the name suggests, they aren't 'online' 24/7, instead spinning up only when data that happens to be resident on that particular drive is actually queried. So I suppose their heat output isn't as big of a concern in their intended role. The Seagate nearline drives run only about 1 watt cooler than the Maxtors.
Wow!
Currently not available, D-E-A-D
It may be made owned by Seagate not....., but it is still a Maxtor!
BubbleSparkxx said:I'm anxious to go ahead and jukebox my 700+ DVDs and put the actual physical copies into storage.
green for that!!
Ouch! since moving to Frys.com, they charge sales tax for TX. that plus ~$8 shipping makes it worse than the $110 in-store deal
Good deal but OP may want to take his session ID out of the link.
-J
Winterpool said:If actual thermal radiation correlates with operating power, the Maxtor may put out 1/3 more heat into the atmosphere (or your well-ventilated computer case -- your case is well-ventilated, no?).
Thanks for this very useful info, winterpool. I have an older P4 3.2GHz machine with a variable speed fan that gets loud when it's cranking. I'm not going to pull the trigger on this deal because I think it would get even louder (not from the disk but from the fan dealing with the higher thermal load). But that's just me and my own personal circumstances. I still think this is a good deal, just not for me.
One of the features of this drive is "Staggered spin-up". I wasn't familiar with that term but it sounds right in line with your description of how these drives were meant to be used (if I had to guess).
This is a seriously good price.
IMHO it would be far too risky to put 500GB of any data on a single drive.
My plan is to buy five hard drives, five hard drive fans, a RAID 5 card, and a good power supply.
Then I'll put all of that an old computer I have sitting around. Twenty minutes after that with the magic of Ubuntu + Samba and I will have a seriously butt kickin' two terabyte NAS that should last for five years. Cost ~$650
ucdincognito said:drexelbit said:is it OEM or retail box?
if Fry makes one more step to make it free shipping, i will defenetely in! 
It comes with a 5-year warranty, so I think it's most likely retail boxed (rebadged Seagate).
No, it is not a Seagate. It is a MaxLine drive, which are made by the old Maxtor. These had 5-year warranties as well.
Order canceled... DEAL DEAD.
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