new harddrive

hi all

time to add a new hdd,
is maxtor anygood?? or should i just stick with seagate.

thanks in advance

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 23:25:17 GMT The moonlight laughed on the blade's
edge when "cupcake" <cupcakelee@hotmail.com> wrote :

>hi all
>
>time to add a new hdd,
>is maxtor anygood?? or should i just stick with seagate.
>
>thanks in advance
>

Been using Maxtor for years.No probs.Fast and very quiet.
Good warranty and good free software to downloads from their site.



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However, how do you rank that decision on Maxtor's 1 year warranty with
Seagate's 5 yr warranty for practically the same price?

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> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 23:25:17 GMT The moonlight laughed on the blade's
> edge when "cupcake" <cupcakelee@hotmail.com> wrote :
>
>>hi all
>>
>>time to add a new hdd,
>>is maxtor anygood?? or should i just stick with seagate.
>>
>>thanks in advance
>>
>
> Been using Maxtor for years.No probs.Fast and very quiet.
> Good warranty and good free software to downloads from their site.
>
>
>
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> Free Windows/PC help,
> http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html
> remove obvious to reply
> email shep@obviouspartyheld.de
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> http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:45:40 GMT, "Jan Alter"
<bearpuf@verizon.net> wrote:

>However, how do you rank that decision on Maxtor's 1 year warranty with
>Seagate's 5 yr warranty for practically the same price?

.... as a good reason to choose Seagate instead, although
often in the past Maxtor had been running a lot of rebates
such that they were substantially cheaper in the mid to
lower capacity sizes.

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 06:16:40 GMT, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:45:40 GMT, "Jan Alter"
><bearpuf@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>However, how do you rank that decision on Maxtor's 1 year warranty with
>>Seagate's 5 yr warranty for practically the same price?
>
>... as a good reason to choose Seagate instead, although
>often in the past Maxtor had been running a lot of rebates
>such that they were substantially cheaper in the mid to
>lower capacity sizes.

Yeah Seagate was one of the last makers to run deep discount rebate
sales. When they did recently I think their warranties were much
shorter. WD did the samething. Luckily there have been a few rebate
sales recently going on at Frys and a few other places with warranties
that are still 5 years like FRYs. They are running one now at
outpost.com 69.99 200 gb 5 yrs.

thanks everyone...

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> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 06:16:40 GMT, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:45:40 GMT, "Jan Alter"
> ><bearpuf@verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >>However, how do you rank that decision on Maxtor's 1 year warranty with
> >>Seagate's 5 yr warranty for practically the same price?
> >
> >... as a good reason to choose Seagate instead, although
> >often in the past Maxtor had been running a lot of rebates
> >such that they were substantially cheaper in the mid to
> >lower capacity sizes.
>
> Yeah Seagate was one of the last makers to run deep discount rebate
> sales. When they did recently I think their warranties were much
> shorter. WD did the samething. Luckily there have been a few rebate
> sales recently going on at Frys and a few other places with warranties
> that are still 5 years like FRYs. They are running one now at
> outpost.com 69.99 200 gb 5 yrs.
>
>

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:04:29 GMT, "John@Smith.com"
<xxxxspud@newscene.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 06:16:40 GMT, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:45:40 GMT, "Jan Alter"
>><bearpuf@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>>However, how do you rank that decision on Maxtor's 1 year warranty with
>>>Seagate's 5 yr warranty for practically the same price?
>>
>>... as a good reason to choose Seagate instead, although
>>often in the past Maxtor had been running a lot of rebates
>>such that they were substantially cheaper in the mid to
>>lower capacity sizes.
>
>Yeah Seagate was one of the last makers to run deep discount rebate
>sales. When they did recently I think their warranties were much
>shorter. WD did the samething. Luckily there have been a few rebate
>sales recently going on at Frys and a few other places with warranties
>that are still 5 years like FRYs. They are running one now at
>outpost.com 69.99 200 gb 5 yrs.
>

Yep I bought one of those Fry's/Outpost 160GB @ $50 AR, it
does have 5 yr. warranty. Pretty sure that deal is dead now
but the 200GB deal is still good for 4 more days as per the
rebate,
http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4008252

I heard Officemax might have a better deal on Black Friday
though... might've been 200GB for $50 AR, IIRC.

Had 1 Maxtor 120 that died, a 200 that died. All replaced under warranty,
which was great. Bought a Hitachi 160g for the main operating system, and my
250 Maxtor is for storage. So far so good with Hitachi....


"cupcake" <cupcakelee@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> hi all
>
> time to add a new hdd,
> is maxtor anygood?? or should i just stick with seagate.
>
> thanks in advance
>
>

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 18:04:59 GMT, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:

>Yep I bought one of those Fry's/Outpost 160GB @ $50 AR, it
>does have 5 yr. warranty. Pretty sure that deal is dead now
>but the 200GB deal is still good for 4 more days as per the
>rebate,
>http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4008252
>
>I heard Officemax might have a better deal on Black Friday
>though... might've been 200GB for $50 AR, IIRC.

Compusa recently started getting close to matching the FRYs deal but I
cant remember if they offered a 5 yr warranty. Im always tempted to
buy HDs even if I dont need one at the moment.

For me - buying from OUTPOST adds about 25-35 in shipping
unfortunately so compusa is a much better deal if they come close in
price.