- Joined
- Jul 14, 2001
- Location
- Edmonton, Alberta
D740X Is Definately The Most Popular Hard Drive, And It Kinda Blows Being Popular...
Well, after shopping all over the city, virtually all Maxtor D740X (All Models) were completely sold out and were out of stock from 8 of the 10 computer stores that are in the city.
It was brutal, I couldn't get a single Maxtor but yet IBMs and WDs were plentiful in all sizes right up to 120GB.
It seems, most retailers are switching to Maxtor due to past technical drive errors that have came up with Seagate, WD and IBM.
One reseller completely refuses to sell IBM and says that IBM hard drives now days are very unreliable. Most other retailers agreed that most people will buy an ATA-133 hard drive over an ATA-100 hard drive even if the ATA-100 hard drive has 8MB Cache. The fact is that in most places, the 8MB models are up to $50 more (Canadian for WD Drives), which is a total ripoff considering in most cases only proving only 5% faster.
But back to my story, the 80GB D740X that I was supposed to get is now delayed untill two weeks from now untill the store I saw the best price for it gets the new stocks in (60 Hard Drives). Get this, the store sold 30 80GB D740Xs in just 4 days! Wow, talk about popularity, and this was just a little computer shop!
They also had the XP2200 T-bred for sale there for $399 but lets leave that for the AMD section.
The other two places wanted $219 for the 80GB, total rip so I think I'm gonna hold out untill stores replenish stocks.
Oh man, two more weeks without a RAID, this sux. But I love that price for the Maxtor 80, just $175 CAN for that puppy, and thats a sweet deal especially considering its not online
p.s- thats like only $104 US, impressive! amount of space.
DS-Master
Well, after shopping all over the city, virtually all Maxtor D740X (All Models) were completely sold out and were out of stock from 8 of the 10 computer stores that are in the city.
It was brutal, I couldn't get a single Maxtor but yet IBMs and WDs were plentiful in all sizes right up to 120GB.
It seems, most retailers are switching to Maxtor due to past technical drive errors that have came up with Seagate, WD and IBM.
One reseller completely refuses to sell IBM and says that IBM hard drives now days are very unreliable. Most other retailers agreed that most people will buy an ATA-133 hard drive over an ATA-100 hard drive even if the ATA-100 hard drive has 8MB Cache. The fact is that in most places, the 8MB models are up to $50 more (Canadian for WD Drives), which is a total ripoff considering in most cases only proving only 5% faster.
But back to my story, the 80GB D740X that I was supposed to get is now delayed untill two weeks from now untill the store I saw the best price for it gets the new stocks in (60 Hard Drives). Get this, the store sold 30 80GB D740Xs in just 4 days! Wow, talk about popularity, and this was just a little computer shop!
They also had the XP2200 T-bred for sale there for $399 but lets leave that for the AMD section.
The other two places wanted $219 for the 80GB, total rip so I think I'm gonna hold out untill stores replenish stocks.
Oh man, two more weeks without a RAID, this sux. But I love that price for the Maxtor 80, just $175 CAN for that puppy, and thats a sweet deal especially considering its not online
p.s- thats like only $104 US, impressive! amount of space.
DS-Master