HOT 500GB $109.99

Supposedly this even has the 5 year warranty. I hope the 750's will start dropping in price like these have!
 
watertown28 said:
HOT HOT HOT aand thye are close to me too
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Close? Will Fry's Brick and Mortar stores match their online pricing because I know that many times I see them listed higher at my local Fry's vs the online shop. Also, when there is free shipping it makes no sense to even bother going down there.
 
It's a Maxtor MXT 7H500F0 500GB SATA by the way, since the title lacks it.

Not that anyone's surprised. ;)
 
To bad I have to pay sales tax, but even at $116 it's a great deal. Ordered! I've still been hanging on to one 80GB IDE drive, but I guess it's going away now. Kinda nostalgic really. :p
 
80? I just retired an 18gb boot drive from my gaming box:p
amazing how much faster a modern 74gb drive is even though the new one is only 10k rpm
 
Crap, I just ordered the 400GB Seagate for $99 yesterday. For those still needing PATA drives, they have a 200GB Maxtor for $49 with free shipping. I ordered one of those as well to put in my old computer which I use as a DVR.

Oldie said:
To bad I have to pay sales tax, but even at $116 it's a great deal. Ordered! I've still been hanging on to one 80GB IDE drive, but I guess it's going away now. Kinda nostalgic really. :p
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Must be something about those 80GB drives then. I've got 3 of them still, two in use. My old system that I use as a DVR has an 80GB WD_SE in it, and a while back when I was sill using that system as my main system I had two 80GB WD_SE drives in it. I have a second system with another 80GB drive in it. I later replace one of the 80GB's with a 120GB and stuck the spare 80GB in a USB enclosure for backup storage. After upgrading to my current system, I put the 120GB in the enclosure for backup and that spare 80GB is now on my shelf next to a still working 8GB drive.
 
Why does it have to be a Maxtor? I'm holding out for a 7200.10 drive. Good deal though if it's going to be used as an external or strictly for storage.
 
I popped one of those in a NAS enclosure..... excellent stuff, and a great price too
 
In for three. I had wanted the samsung because I had heard they were quiter, but ' Ill give these a whirl.
 
mZimm said:
Why does it have to be a Maxtor? I'm holding out for a 7200.10 drive. Good deal though if it's going to be used as an external or strictly for storage.
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That's my boat. I'm sticking with my Raptor for my OS drive, but I just need a big sucker to drop stuff into, so this will do nicely. :)

Luckily Fry's distribution center is about 90 miles from here. The last time I ordered with ground shipping, I had it about 30 hours later. :D
 
I just hit myself in for one... I'll use it as an external drive in an eSATA enclosure for a Scientific Atlanta 8300HD (HD-DVR) to expand its storage :D.
 
Has it been taking awhile for anyone else to get a confirmation email? I ordered around 4 hours ago, and still haven't gotten anything. Usually it comes about 30 seconds later. I wonder if stock is running low and they don't want to confirm yet. That would suck. :(
 
Oldie said:
Has it been taking awhile for anyone else to get a confirmation email? I ordered around 4 hours ago, and still haven't gotten anything. Usually it comes about 30 seconds later. I wonder if stock is running low and they don't want to confirm yet. That would suck. :(
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I haven't gotten a confirmation email yet either :(, and it's been about 35 minutes.
 
maxtor thats why its not gettin much attention...500gig hdd of other brands (seagate/wd) have better reputation and can be had for an extra 20-30 dollars. ppl are willing to pay that 20-30 dollars for the slight peace of mind that they hdds wont crash and lose 500 gigs of data!!! :eek:
 
phudog said:
maxtor thats why its not gettin much attention...500gig hdd of other brands (seagate/wd) have better reputation and can be had for an extra 20-30 dollars. ppl are willing to pay that 20-30 dollars for the slight peace of mind that they hdds wont crash and lose 500 gigs of data!!! :eek:
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I don't know what the death ratio is on Maxtor but I've never had a problem with their drives. I have some Maxtors that are over 5 years old and they're still kicking, no funny noises and smart still checks out ok. These are drives that I've used for file serving so they have a lot of hours. $110 bucks for 500 gigs is a steal, I'm tempted.
 
phudog said:
maxtor thats why its not gettin much attention...500gig hdd of other brands (seagate/wd) have better reputation and can be had for an extra 20-30 dollars. ppl are willing to pay that 20-30 dollars for the slight peace of mind that they hdds wont crash and lose 500 gigs of data!!! :eek:
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news flash--Seagate owns Maxtor now, so there is a VERY good chance this is a reaedged Seagate.
 
ZMAN Z28 said:
Just orderd 1 T worth. Now I can finally shut my signature up.

ZMAN
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Hah, I'm in the same ballpark. Just ran out of space w/ a little over a TB... putting three of these 500 giggers in RAID 5 for another TB should hold me off for a bit.
 
I have a couple on the way to add to my collection, the price point per gig is awesome.
 
I'm thinking of getting 2 more of these so I will have a total of 2TB.

*feels e-penis growing*

zinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng
 
Heh, my supervisor was just boasting about his half a terabyte for 140.

Just made him very quiet. :D
 
Hulk said:
and so they say it's not a [H]ot deal anymore? You are saying its a (C)old deal? because it went up by ten bucks lol.
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Would you buy one for $120 now when you could've bought one for $110 yesterday?
:confused:
 
I got one. Gotta find a quality USB enclosures. I've had a few HDs die because of cheap ones.
 
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