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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Vertigo1 on April 15, 2003, 03:09:06 pm
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Best Buy has 'em for $159 with a $50 mail-in rebate from Maxtor! Thats a 120 gig drive for $109!!! That is the cheapest price I've seen by far for a drive that large and fast. If you're in the market for a new drive, better act NOW. I doubt it'll last long at this price.
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Sounds good.
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ask me how much i once bought a 160 GB Maxtor drive for.
$175. including shipping.
seems like a good deal dude, thanks for pointing it out! :yes:
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That would be quite nice, I could add it in in addition to my 20.4 GB IBM HD....
Now if only I could convince my parents to get it.
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I admit, i have no idea of what the most powerful computer stuff about at the moment is. I lost track about early year 2000.
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3GHz, GBs of RAM, 4th (or 5th?) generation GPUs....
It's good to be a geek :D
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The size doesn't matter- heavy partitioning or a complex drive structure boosts security, anyway. And you can get, like, 40 10-20Gb hard drives for nothing from a few trips to the junkyard. Bring your screwdriver and soldering iron.
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I never buy hard disks nowadays unless they're IBM. The reliability and quality is worth the extra price, IMHO.
*waits for someone who has had a bad IBM experience to come flaming his way in* :rolleyes:
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i dunno, my 40gb seagate barracuda, hasn't failed me yet, and my OLD 3.2 gb maxtor diamondmax is oddly enough still goin'
might look into getting a second hdd for my computer...
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
3GHz, GBs of RAM, 4th (or 5th?) generation GPUs....
It's good to be a geek :D
*brings out Pcpowerplay BEAST specs*
Intel P4 3.06 ghz (with h/t)
Gigabyte GA-8inxp (e7205 Granite bay) (m/board)
2 gb corsair xms3200 twinx (ddr)
Thermallight SLK-900u HSF
Antec Truepower 550w PSU
ati radeon 9700 pro
Creative audigy2 platinum
logitech z680 THX Speaker system
Sony MDR-DS5100 Wireless Dolby headphones
Pinnacle Systems DC1000 Mpeg2 Video Editing
Pioneer DVR-AO5 Pro
Asus CDW-5224
Seagate barracuda st3120023AS SATA 120gb x2
Panasonic 3.5" floppy
4-port serial ATA/150 Raid Controller
Samsung Syncmaster 240T 24" TFT
Lian-Li Black pc71 case
Logitech Cordless freedom optical
Logitech Cordless mouse MX700
Thrustmaster HOTAS Cougar Flight
Logitech Momo Force
total price: (appox) $24700 AUD(that's aussie dollars)
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Originally posted by Sandwich
I never buy hard disks nowadays unless they're IBM. The reliability and quality is worth the extra price, IMHO.
You know IBM recently sold their storage division to Hitachi and either as a result of that or before, have started rebadging drives from 3 different manufacturers under their own name don't you?
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Originally posted by Admiral LSD
You know IBM recently sold their storage division to Hitachi and either as a result of that or before, have started rebadging drives from 3 different manufacturers under their own name don't you?
How recently?
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I was advised never to buy an IBM/Hitachi hard drive again because of their low reliability 'pixie dust' that tends to wear out more quickly than other methods.
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Originally posted by Sandwich
I never buy hard disks nowadays unless they're IBM. The reliability and quality is worth the extra price, IMHO.
*waits for someone who has had a bad IBM experience to come flaming his way in* :rolleyes:
Won't be me, because my case is properly ventilated. :D
*pats his IBM 45GB 75GXP*
Maxtors are REALLY NICE drives, but IBM is the king in sustained file transfer rates.
I've used drives from just about every manufacturer, and I have to say that Maxtor, Quantum (now part of Maxtor Corp) and IBM make the best drives. I've had nothing but problems out of Western Digital and Seagate. Every WD drive (used a grand total of 5), with the exception of one (which is running in the K6-2 450 sitting next to me right now running my new TV tuner card) has croaked on me. With Seagate, the damn things absolutely refused to work properly with another brand of hard drive on the same IDE chain. Either it wouldn't POST or it would hard lock when I do a warm boot. Granted, this is with an older Seagate drive (sub 1GB range) so this might have been resolved. However, I'm not gonna blow my money just to be sure.
As for Maxtor and Quantum....every drive I've used by them is like a freakin ROCK! I used to have a 170MB Quantum (which I used for backups only) until the power supply in my previous case decided to blow up, which fried a mitsumi FDD and the said Quantum 170MB drive.
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Originally posted by Sandwich
How recently?
Almost a year ago IIRC. I think they still market them under the IBM name though.
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Maxtors are good, but I've had one go a little funky on me before. There were... extenuating circumstances, though, so whever there's an option, I usually spring for one.
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Originally posted by Sandwich
I never buy hard disks nowadays unless they're IBM. The reliability and quality is worth the extra price, IMHO.
*waits for someone who has had a bad IBM experience to come flaming his way in* :rolleyes:
*starts flaming*
my hdd experience
segate = unreliable, bit noisy
wester digital = i fryd one and the otherone was damm slow
ibm = still running a 3 year old 14.4gb hdd (always on)
during that time i lost a 40gb ibm disk twice once it was repairable with low level formating ,short trip back in time : old old 1-20mb disks had to be low level formated every now and then because of heat /wearing out of material
the disk was slowing down and seeking heavily even with hours of defraging then it showed that i had a total of 18,6% faulty sectors , now usualy a hdd has spare sectors wich it automaticaly uses without the the notice of the OS or the user but it actualy showed me :D the second time it failed on me was when it started to make mechanical noises going to failing on POST
note there the 14.4disk is still working while runing longer and doing the same
so much for ibm bashing :D
maxtor = from what i know today its good it runs fast its nice and silent
from the riability i dont know dont have it that long :)
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my little barracuda (seagate) isn't really noisy, either that or i can't hear it over my case fans:nervous:
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Case in point: for the past few months I've had the side cover of my computer off, for heat reasons, esp. since the CPU fan keeps crapping out every week. Anyway, alongside this opening, I have another computer, and the keyboard for that computer rests on top of the case.
Apparently, the power cable to my HDD had a slight short in certain positions, so that whenever the cable was moved or touched, the power on the drive would cut out and in, stopping and starting the drive's spin suddenly. This would happen more or less every time I picked up the 2nd computer's keyboard to type something, as its cable passed right by the HDD power cable.
But I didn't know about the power cable problem at the time, and thought that the HDD (IBM, 17Gb) was crapping out. I'd hear it restarting itself a bunch, clicking and clacking to get the heads into place or whatever. But in-between these times of clicking, the drive would behave completely normally. So I started taking data off of it, to prepare for the worst.
Then I finally realized somehow why it was suddenly dying, and closed the computer panel up. I haven't had problems since then.
But the point is this: that drive had its power cut off suddenly dozens of times, sometimes even in the middle of disk writes and the like. And after all that, withthe source of the problem solved, it works perfectly.
Sandwich likes IBM. :nod:
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odd, mine never did then when i take the side panel off.....
i do that to resolve a small noise issue with my radeon (bloody sleeve bearings! [orb fan])
or to clean the dust out....(heh, my case even came with a dust filter and it works)
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Yeah, I do have to say that IBM and Maxtor's warranty service is pretty damn good. If you have a problem, RMA it and they'll send you a new one. No questions asked (beyond getting the error code).
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I have only really used IBM and Quantum drives, but those have all worked quite nicely for me (althought the latter is now merged with Maxtor I think).
or to clean the dust out....(heh, my case even came with a dust filter and it works)
That reminds me; I need to do this sometime soon. Probably will find another dead spider inside... :D
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Maxtor bought out Quantum years ago. Why do you think their drives are so quiet and reliable? ;)