babis Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 Product: 80GB Deskstar 120GXP Internal EIDE Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive Question: To buy or not to buy? My reasons I found it for $73.49 shipped.. and well I've been wanting to buy me a new harddrive, but I've been waiting till I find a good drive for a good price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JnCoKiLLa Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 don't do it....IBMs are great but they are pron to die on people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 I have installed over 6 IMB 60GXP 41G and they all work great, and the 120GXPs are even faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slouch Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 I have an 80 gig IBM drive sitting on my desk now. It's a replacement for the 75 gig "Deathstar" that died on me. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it. My advice is find another drive and get it instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jago6498 Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 Dang $81 shipped. thats a great deal. what site is selling it for that cheap? I've had my IBM 60GXP 40gb drive for over a year with no problems. But quite a few of the 75GXP 80GB IBM drives at my work have crashed because of bad sectors on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1759 Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 Get a Maxtor, I've have 2 of them, one is over 4 years old and the other is about a year and a half old, not a problem with either one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babis Posted July 24, 2002 Author Share Posted July 24, 2002 jago6498 while surfing http://slickdeals.net/ i found the deal i was telling you about. oh ... it's actually selling for $73.49 "Dell Home has the IBM 120GXP 80GB 7200RPM Hard Drive for $86. There is an automatic 10% off. Apply coupon code 87315AF761DC for another 5% off which drops your price down to $73. Free next day shipping. Search for "A0009135" to find it. ." Man I just read more reviews, I've never seen such mixed reviews for a product.. some poeple love it, others HATE it... I guess I'll skip this deal.... anyhow thanks a lot for the comments..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jago6498 Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 kick ass! this is sweet. I dont see any problems with IBM drives. I just might get this in a few weeks. Thanx again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyfrog Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 Personally I recommend the Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 80GB drive. It's by far the quietest drive you can get in this class, and it's extremely reliable. If all you care about is speed though, the Western Digital 120GB 8MB cache model is the fastest IDE out there right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babis Posted July 25, 2002 Author Share Posted July 25, 2002 update: now the price has dropped to $73.49 damn.. this is becoming more appealing than usual... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtLENIN Posted July 25, 2002 Share Posted July 25, 2002 nothing wrong with mine IBM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
=NickJ= Posted July 26, 2002 Share Posted July 26, 2002 Get Maxtors, they are the best for speed and reliability. I have one quantum (maxtor bought them and used their technology) that is over 7rs old,still runs as sweet as pie :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babis Posted July 26, 2002 Author Share Posted July 26, 2002 !!!UPDATE!!! deal expired! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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