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I am looking for a good deal Maxtor Hard Drive (EIDE Interface) 200GB or 250GB @7200RPM 8MB cache.

My budget for the 200GB model is no more than $115 including tax and shipping.
I am willing to spend an extra $30 or $40 on a 250GB version.

Anybody know of any good deals out there which could either match or beat my set budget?

Thanks so much in advance,
DeAdPaCe
 
Get on pricewatch.com, you don't even need a special deal. They're going for that price range right off the shelf.

I'll be buying 4 the second I can find 4 250GB drives for $100 each (don't care if they are 5400rpm or sata and ata100 or ata133, just want the things for $100 without a rebate or anything limited to 1/address!)
 
Why not Seagate? I bought a 200GB Seagate IDE drive and have been really happy with it. Best hard drive I've seen, much better than my 80GB Western Digital...
 
I was at some other forum reading in a thread and someone who had a Seagate hard drive said that the disk on the hard drive was loose and wobly and got scratched so the hard drive crashed and he lost some saved junk that he had on it. (or something along those lines, I vaguely remember the exact problem, but I know it was with the disk on it that spins) I advice to stick with Western Digital, or Maxtor because I have that kind and I never had a problem, or read of a problem, or, if you get one from say Best Buy, get a warranty, saftey for just a thenth of the price.
 
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Seagate has seriously stepped up their quality...
 
I've had three Maxtors, two WD, and two Seagates and the Seagates are by far the best. I'll never switch again (unless their quality goes down).
Solid, reliable, and QUIET.
 
Hard drive reliability and such goes up and down. IBM drives used to be great, then they made 75GB drives that were so bad it drove them out of the hard drive business (now Hitachi releases their drives and they're quite good). Maxtor deals in volume, and this may enable them to bargain better prices on better components. Whether they do or not, I am not sure. I go through so many hard drives in various places (multiple PCs, Tivos, Xbox, etc, etc) I don't even notice what brand is crashing and what isn't.

And as far as noise is concerned (I often see lots of people saying one drive or another is "really quiet"), that can vary among different drives that are the same model.

Get it cheap, get it with a warranty, and always have backups of anything you can't lose.
 
IBM was 'okay' until they got really greedy.. Now owned by Hitachi and should be better drives even tho Hitachi chose to keep the dreaded Deskstar name.. Western Digital again, used to be good. Years ago.. Not no mo... Maxtor... Never liked 'em, they seem to cater to benchmarks and their 'no lemon' type waranty. Seagate is the best of the three. Cheap, quiet and reliable. Why nobody ever mentions their name is beyond me, but then again, how come when you want a printer nobody ever shouts out Xerox or Samsung, and always yells HP, Canon & Epson.. Unfortunately Quantum got out of the game and sold to Maxtor which sucks because Quantum drives always kicked ass.. So is the realm of things.. People get brainwashed with commercials and idiot sales people into thinking only a few 'good' brands exist, when those mentioned brands aren't always good, and are almost always overpriced.

My picks for HD's: Seagate & Fujitsu.. I dunno bout Hitachi desktop HDs quite yet but they seem good, and remember they've been making their own laptop drives for quite awhile now and are good.

Don't even ask me about CPU's or OS's.... And remember LCD screens are only made by a few companies, everyone else rebrands 'em... Alla CD/DVD drives....

I'm done...
 
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Something to look into if you aren't so concerned about the Maxtor name on the box: CompUSA's drives are rebranded Maxtors--the box even looks the same. Haven't had a problem with the one I have.

To add fuel to the fire: I've used IBM, Conner, Maxtor, and WD at home. The only drives I've ever had die before old age were WD. I've sworn off them for good. The IBM was from the older days (10GB, ~1999) before their quality problems started. Haven't tried Hitachi at home, but they swear by them in our data centers at work.
 
Oh yeah, I forgot I had a fujitsu once upon a time. That was a good drive.

I also had one of the CompUSA/Maxtor drives and it started producing lots of bad sectors after a few months.
 
I've had 2 IBM hard drives and 1 Western Digital hard drive which crapped out badly on me when I needed them the most. I have a Maxtor drive right now and I love it so much. Hasn't failed on me yet, extremely quiet, and really fast. I am not going to take any chances and purchase any other brand.
 
I have several Maxtor drives at home, both in my PCs and in my TiVos, and they all seem fine. But the company I work for buys Dell PCs shipped with Maxtor drives, and they are failing at an alarming rate! It's so bad that we are now replacing all of the Maxtor drives with Seagates at a huge expense.

You can get a 200GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache ATA/100 Seagate at CompUSA for only $80 after MIR:

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=309209&pfp=BROWSE

Valid through the 16th.
 
Last month, I paid $40 for my WD HDD 7200 RPM EIDE 8MB cache 120GB (brand new) and thought that price was high (Frys electronics). Instead, I'd recommend to save up and buy the WD Raptor 74 GB 10K RPM SATA HDD. Itll smoke anything you got, probably even SCSI. If you play games, that drive is for you!


DeAdPaCe said:
I am looking for a good deal Maxtor Hard Drive (EIDE Interface) 200GB or 250GB @7200RPM 8MB cache.

My budget for the 200GB model is no more than $115 including tax and shipping.
I am willing to spend an extra $30 or $40 on a 250GB version.

Anybody know of any good deals out there which could either match or beat my set budget?

Thanks so much in advance,
DeAdPaCe
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