Maxtor 40gb Sata150 HDD's $24 shipped on ebay

[BigJk-47]

I stumbled onto this when I was searching for a new hard drive for my parents computer,the egg wants $40+ Shipping for this drive.These are BRAND NEW drives.

$23.98 shipped is what mine came to.Good for spares,good for budget builds,good for parents who only browse the internet

202 feedback,99.5% positive.

Hurry,he only has 38.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSAA:US:11&Item=320031748754

 

[Will Eatforfood]

darn u...I bought into it.... Oh well...40 gig drive is always good for something.

 

[d94]

not bad @ all..if you get 2+ its $22 /drive shipped

 

[damarble]

These things are screaming for budget RAID. Too bad they are so small though. Now to figure out what I could do with a small drive.....

 

[XvDarkyvX]

too bad they're 2mb buffer.. it was 8 i would've jumped on one.

 

[Foxie3a]

Here is Maxtor's page on the drive...

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/M...Max+Family/DiamondMax+8s&productview=Overview

40GB, 7200RPM, S-ATA2 with NCQ, 2mb cache and FDB motor. Not all bad for $22.

I ordered two of them, it'll be hard deciding whether to go RAID 0 or 1 though.

Thanks for the link.

 

[Krusty]

Hmm...what do you think would perform better? A 74gb raptor or 2 of these in Raid 0?

 

[Pinky]

Hmm...what do you think would perform better? A 74gb raptor or 2 of these in Raid 0?

Think it would be about the same, maybe a slight edge to the raptor. But the raptor costs much more than 2 of these...

 

[Drinkyoghurt]

raptor i bet

 

[Krusty]

Think it would be about the same, maybe a slight edge to the raptor. But the raptor costs much more than 2 of these...

But a Raptor takes up half the space, roughly half the power, and has half the chance of failing.

Conclusion: If you've got the space in your system and don't care if a drive fails on you, this is a better choice than a Raptor. If you want something cleaner and more reliable, then spending extra on the raptor may be good.

 

[Foxie3a]

Krusty, I would say that they have more than double the chance of failing. They are clearly entry level drives, and the Raptor surely isn't. I would trust the Raptor to survive much longer than one or even two of those Maxtors.

Also, I would think that they don't perform half as well as the Raptor, they can't be too far from the Raptor, so two of them would be better. At least that's what I think.

I'd still say a Raptor is the much better option, but at $40 for two, it's hard to beat. I'll let you guys know when I get them.

 

[MRD]

The main problem for me here is that, while I can use a bunch of 40's, I would use them in PC's w/o a SATA controller on board.

The PC's I have with SATA don't really need a new drive...

Oh well, still a good deal for the right person.

 

[BigJk-47]

I got a conformation this afternoon saying it was shipped at 10 am.

 

[Will Eatforfood]

hmmm...can I run sata-ide raid?

 

[Fam Money]

Product reviews from Newegg:
Link

 

[Neuromancer]

Wow thats even a better deal deal then the 30 dollar 40GB drives (refurbed) on TD.

 

[damarble]

Well I just found a reason to get one. My desktop mysteriously BSODed on startup last night, and Windows is toast. So from here on out I'll ghost my C: partition (30gb) to this Maxtor for easy restores.

 

[Stedeman]

Just a heads up these drives are not NEW "For Sale: New Pulled 40GB Maxtor SATA hard drives," 3rd line in ad and under the "Item Specifics - Item Condition," top of Item Description the condition is "Used." Don't get me wrong it's still a good deal but they are not new.

 

[g0dM@n]

But a Raptor takes up half the space, roughly half the power, and has half the chance of failing.

Conclusion: If you've got the space in your system and don't care if a drive fails on you, this is a better choice than a Raptor. If you want something cleaner and more reliable, then spending extra on the raptor may be good.

good point!

 

[BigJk-47]

Well,I got mine in yesterday and it works great!

Unformatted too LOL.They come with a new install of XP on them from compaq,with a few tricks one could boot right into windows.I formatted mine though,im installing XP on it as I type this.