Maxtor L01P080 7200 RPM 80 GB Hard Drive

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Summary: Great Purchase for me
Review: I bought one of these being unsure of its performance. I have been highly impressed, I use this external hard-dive, bouncing it back and forth between my two desk top computers and my lap-top. I mainly use it for MP3 storage, no problems at all for me, was easy to install (just plugged it in) and the price can't be beat....

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Summary: Don't take chances...
Review: I bought this drive for a custome built computer. I have used a few maxtor HD's before but I havent used one in any of my own computers. This hard drive worked for about 4 months. then my computer started crashing randomly. I thought it was because I had a virus (and incident with Kazaa) so I tried re-installing XP. During installation, setup said that some files wern't installed but i could go on and run XP without some. After installation the computer still randomly restarted. a few days later when I booted up, I headrd a horrable grinding noise and my comp quit working all together. Yes it was the hard drive all along. dont take chances with maxtor. western digital has much more stable and dependable hard drives

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Summary: Lasted just a few hours
Review: I got a brand new one of these the other day. I was pleased with how quiet and how fast it was. I was just about done transferring my system to this drive, when it came to a grinding halt. It made a series of awful scraping noises, and now the system can't even detect that it's there. What a crock.

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Summary: Dunno what other people meant about "died quickly"
Review: I got this HD for a computer I built, and I've loaded it with almost 5 gigs of crud since after Thanksgiving. It runs fine, I've overclocked my computer and no crashes, only two times the computer wouldn't start(because the power strip wasn't on) and a WHOLE LOT of intense gaming, and it STILL hasn't crashed.
BOTTOM LINE: If you don't have the moolah for a external backup, do this.

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Summary: Good HD for the money
Review: I had 10 GB Maxtor which was ready to die (mistery) I decided to try new HD.. Well 100 or more GB I think is to big for my PC, so I got 80 GB for 80 $ thru Amazon( good place to shop) I noticed that this HD less noisy, but is not super quiet. Set up was easy...I swap the HDs, so had to start from zero...Make sure you have OS CD disk handy... Hopefuly technological progress move fast so I can get fast reliable flash storages soon..Seagate is another choce...

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Summary: Great drive no problems
Review: I have now purchased my second Maxtor 80GB drive. The first was about 8 months ago. Both drives have been running perfect. Setup was a breeze and jumpers were easy to configure. There is a diagram right on the drive. both drives are fast and very quiet.

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Summary: Great value drive with extra-ordinary performance
Review: I have purchased and installed 2 WesternDigital and 3 Maxtor hard drives in the past 5 years. From my personal experience, both are good brand. The prices are very compatible for both drives and are all carried 3 years warranty. However I'd rather choose Maxtor in the future. The Maxtor drives have very good utility and are very user friendly, they are easy to install and come with software to help get them partitioned and formatted even you are a first time user. Ultra ATA/133 interface with 8MB Cache makes the drive 20% faster than the regular one (2MB Cache size). Have used Maxtor in many years and never had a failure. Great Drive!

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Summary: GREAT DRIVE AT A GREAT PRICE!!!
Review: I just purchased the Maxtor 80GB Internal Hard Drive and I have to say it's great! VERY easy to install, VERY FAST and quiet as well. If you are looking for a hard drive for extra storage and not too expensive then this is the one! Very pleased with the purchase!

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Summary: Fast but died quickly
Review: I purchased 2 of these drives for my ATA 133 array. They were speedy, I will grant Maxtor that, but crashed several times resulting in data lost, system rebuilds and so on. Anyway after the 2nd crash I got smart and moved my important files over to an old Western Digital drive I've had for almost 4 years now. Good thing too because not long after one of the two disks in the array (stripped not mirrored) completely died with no chance at recovery (would not even register with Maxtor's disk utilities). Thank god all a lost were some unimportant mp3s and the such. Anyway, you would expect more than 10 months on a Home PC disk drive. ATA 133 is nice, but reliabilty outwieghs the (small) bump in speed anytime.

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Summary: watch out!!!
Review: I purchased this piece of grap for a reburhished computer that I am working on. The jumper selection is basically trial and error selection. Good luck determining from the picture where the H>> you're supposed to put the jumpers to determine master or slave settings.Most hard drives have the settings on the hard drive itself...this one does not!!!
I've been fooling with it for two days and still can't get the software that comes with it to acknowledge that the hard drive is there. Take my advice and stick with Western Digital, I am from now on!!!!
After reading other reviews, I thought I would try installing it again on a Pentium III,the hard drive is VERY NOISY, the computer never acknowledged it being there. Even the instalation software never acknowledged the hard drive being there. I set it as MASTER and a second drive as slave. Got a IDE error when booting. I changed it to slave (it took some effort figuring out the jumpers) and the second drive as Master. The software and the computer never acknowledged the slave hard drive which was the Maxtor. The hard drive was very warm almost hot when I took it out of the computer. HONESTLY, this is NOT a very good hard drive. I've never had these problems with Western Digital.