Maxtor 120GB

SATA/150, 7200 RPM - MPN: L01M120

Description: Get the ultimate performance of Serial ATA with a Maxtor SATA Ultra Series hard drive kit. Take advantage of SATA/150, the world's fastest ATA interface-with a 150MB/sec max burst transfer rate! The SATA Ultra Series is the ideal choice for speed-intensive applications like ... read more

Get the ultimate performance of Serial ATA with a Maxtor SATA Ultra Series hard drive kit. Take advantage of SATA/150, the world's fastest ATA interface-with a 150MB/sec max burst transfer rate! The SATA Ultra Series is the ideal choice for speed-intensive applications like video editing, gaming, digital content creation, and RAID. Experience the benefits of peak system performance. Achieve faster loading and smoother play with all the latest games and video applications. Create space for everything that drives you - movies, music and more. Every 40GB stores up to 18 hours of DVD-quality video, 10, 000 MP3s, or 40, 000 digital photos. Free your creative potential. Upgrade to this Maxtor drive and enjoy unparalleled speed, power and performance. minimize

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cwitter from MI

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Apr 2005

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User has 5 Days of experience with this product

I bought this hard drive just a few days ago, and ...

Strengths:

Great Value

Weaknesses:

Slightly slugish performance

Posted May 3, 2005 - I bought this hard drive just a few days ago, and it has been performing alright. It seems slightly on the load side, and for that reason I would have to think twice before buying another one. I have worked with Maxtor drives in the past and have never heard a drive so loud. I do though think it a great value compared to other sata drives on the market.

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netman88 from CA

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User has 7 Days of experience with this product

The drive feels slower than the Hitachi drive that ...

Strengths:

Great price for a 120GB drive. Very easy to install in a pc environment. Comes with screws, drives, instructions and a cd.

Weaknesses:

Feels slower than the one Hitachi/IBM Deskstar 120GB one.

Posted Dec 8, 2004 - The drive feels slower than the Hitachi drive that I have while booting up with Windows. While researching the specs afterwards, I noticed that the average seek time is < 9.3ms. My Hitachi Deskstar was 8.5ms. From my personal experience,I have been pretty lucky with the reliablity with the Maxtor and Hitachi/IBM drives. I had bad experience with Western Digitals, and Seagates. The Maxtor drive comes with a 1-yr warranty and SATA ready. If you want SATA, you will need to buy a SATA card for the computer.

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Bate119 from WA

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Aug 2003

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User has 15 Months of experience with this product

Before installing this drive on my Gigabyte mobo ( ...

Strengths:

Great bang for the buck; inexpensive and reliable

Weaknesses:

7,200 RPM

Posted Nov 26, 2004 - Before installing this drive on my Gigabyte mobo (GA7N400P2), I would typically get 15-20 Mbs on the Passmark Benchmark tests. After installing the Maxtor, I now consistently get 49+ Mbs benchmarks. What I would expect from a 7,200 SATA. Great buy.

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gman757 from TX

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User has 9 Months of experience with this product

I got this hard drive because I wanted to use to t ...

Strengths:

Dual SATA/4-pin power option. Good support from Maxtor.

Weaknesses:

Slow...slow....slow....

Posted Apr 26, 2004 - I got this hard drive because I wanted to use to the SATA ports on my ASUS A7N8X motherboard. The Asus mobo includes the SATA data connectors, but my system only has the normal 4-pin power connectors, not the SATA power connectors. So the Maxtor seemed like a good deal because it included both types of connections. I installed Windows XP without burning-in the hard drive...bad move, I had hard drive errors. However I got a good set of utilities from the Maxtor website and fixed everything. In fact, the utilities even have a built in RMA system such that if the utility can't fix the problem, it walks you through the warranty return process. Once I got it going, I noticed that there was no real performance increase compared to a regular ATA/IDE hard drive. In fact, it seems slower than some IDE drives I've seen. If you are getting a SATA hard drive, I'd recommend either investing in a 10,000rpm drive or getting 2 and building a RAID array. Or you could just save yourself some money and get a regular IDE hard drive. You won't see enough of a performance increase to justify spending the extra money on a SATA drive.

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