Maxtor to the Max

[Grinnin Reaper]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/27049.html 320 Gig harddrives, I gotta get me one of those.

[eviltechie]

HOLY SMOKES!

:eyecrazy:

[Uranium-235]

gimmeah!

[accurateimage]

Holy crap! that thing is HUGE! But I would rather have 3 of my ata 100 120gb 8mb cache drives for the grand total of $390, same price the maxtor is supposed to come in at heheand have 360 posted gigs, well 345 real life.

[BobyJo]

There is a drawback on Maxtor hard drives starting very soon.
All hard drives sold after 10/1/2002 will carry a ONE YEAR warranty.
Now why does Maxtor come along and drop thier warranty from THREE years down to one year.
They hide this info in fine print at the bottom of the information sheet on the drives.
Like they are ashamed to make this known to the public.

[Grinnin Reaper]

Your only partially right BobyJo reducing warranty support from three years to one on some lines(this does not apply to the MaXLine) Granted it sucks if you get the one year warranty but not all of the drives have been cut back. Just think with 4 of these puppies you could be over a terrabyte of data storage. Granted that's expenxive but it is within reason now.

[eviltechie]

this is definately a new step in consumer technology

but since its so expensive
i might as well get 3 hds and raid 1 them

so u have 3 native partitions
very fault tolerance
faster too

and the price would be about the same right?

like what AI suggested

i agree with him

also i guess we better start stocking up before they lower it to 1 year warantee?

[chiron]

Something's going down with the HDD manufacturers....

Maxtor's reducing warranties from 3 years to 1 (bar their new MaxLine series);
WDC (Western Digital Corp.) going from 3 years to 1 with their BB (2MB cache) series (but not their JB series (8MB cache));
Samsung say they've still got 3 years, but make a very strong point of saying that "they reserve the right to change these at their discretion);
IBM no longer support 24.7 operation with their DeskStar series (only 333hrs/month)
...and Fujitsu are just crap anyway ;)

I'm wondering if they're gearing up for unreliable SATA drives?

[BobyJo]

I just read an article yesterday that all HD mfg are going to a one yr warranty on baseline units as of 10/1/2002 except IBM. No word as of yet on thier HD's, since they have sold thier HD mfg facility the new people may not have had the oportunity to make a change as of yet.

[Omega]

Jebus. MTBF over one million hours? That's over 100 years! So for every one that fails after one year (over 113 short), there's one that will last for 227 years (to average 114, equal to one million hours)? Unfortunately, in 227 years 320 GB will be so inconsequential, it's not even funny (not to mention the standard IDE interface). It'd be so cool to see a glimpse of technology 227 years from now...

[Uranium-235]

you think the human race will be around in 227 years?

[accurateimage]

Probably not *L* I sure will not be :D