Rating: 
Summary: Great
Review: This drive is great easy to install. For a price of $149 after rebate it's the cheapest I've found anywhere.
Rating: 
Summary: Had no problems with the drive so far
Review: This is a great deal, as this drive retails for around $159.00 at some stores. You need to buy an Ultra ATA-133 card, as it is not included with the drive, the ad notwithstanding. I also picked up a copy of Partition Magic 8.0, although the MaxBlast software worked fine to create partitions. Do not set up the drive by booting from the MaxBlast CD; install MaxBlast on Windows and set them up from there.
Rating: 
Summary: Inexpensive but not durable.
Review: This Maxtor 160GB hard drive worked pretty well for about one year. The speed was good and the storage space was a good value for the money. However, the drive started braking down just one month after the warranty expired. Whenever I turned it on, it started to screech extremely loudly. After a while, many of the files became unreadable. If all you need is cheap temporary storage, this hard drive may be a good deal. On the other hand, I suggest you look somewhere else for reliable, long-term file storage.
Rating: 
Summary: Maxtor does not stand behind its products.
Review: Wait until you have problems with a Maxtor drive. Their tech support is lousy and their customer service is even worse. Forget their warranty, you can do better with Western Digital, Seagate or Hitachi.
Rating: 
Summary: pretty decent
Review: well i got the drive and it crashed within the first week but i sent it back to maxtor and they sent me a new one which works well now. Their support is really really good, and they took the drive back no questions asked. Im happy right now with its performance, but i do prefer my western digital and ibm (yes even my ibm) to the maxtor.
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Summary: MaxBlast 3.0 corrupted my system!!!
Review: Wow. Maxtor is terrible. Following all of their instructions to the letter, I attempted to copy my Win2K SP4.0 system disk (20GB) onto this newer, larger drive. The first attempt took 2 hours and failed at 95% completion. When I attempted to perform the copy from within Win2K, it took another 2+ hours to complete. Everything appeared fine until I attempted to boot off the new drive. NOTHING.
Yes...NOTHING. No recognized boot volume.
WORSE YET...my original system disk was totally corrupted. My recently made repair disk failed. For every fixed file, there was another one waiting. After several nights of trying every trick possible (including analyzing the system on another win2K machine), I have given up.
The drive itself works...so maxtor gets a 1 star. But their software violated the PRIME DIRECTIVE: DO NO HARM.
I have written to Maxtor several times. Eventually, a human responded and said "The warranty says we are not responsible for any incidental or direct data loss". TRANSLATION: MAXTOR does not care what happens when you use their software!!!! Not only did they cost me >24 hours of my LIFE, they refuse to compensate me in any way for their faulty software that corrupted my original (perfectly fine) system disk! Well, if they don't care how messed up your data is going to get, why would I care to buy their products in the future.
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