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Summary: Quiet and good software.
Review: I recently bought this drive, and it's working great for me. What I really like about his drive is that it's really quiet compare to my old Quantum SCSI drive. I've had another Maxtor 20GB for two years and it's also working fine and very quiet. Another thing I like about the maxtor drives is the software included. Installation was made really easy, just had to hook it up, fired up the machine, run the software, restart, and the drive is ready for use. The jumper setting is clearly illustrated in the instruction booklet. The whole installation is done in 30 mintues. Overall I am very satisfied.
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Summary: Quiet and good software.
Review: I recently bought this drive, and it's working great for me. What I really like about his drive is that it's really quiet compare to my old Quantum SCSI drive. I've had another Maxtor 20GB for two years and it's also working fine and very quiet. Another thing I like about the maxtor drives is the software included. Installation was made really easy, just had to hook it up, fired up the machine, run the software, restart, and the drive is ready for use. The jumper setting is clearly illustrated in the instruction booklet. The whole installation is done in 30 mintues. Overall I am very satisfied.
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Summary: Great drive at an great price!
Review: I'm running this drive as my primary master and a comparable Western Digital (old boot drive) as my primary slave. Although the documentation is skimpy, it is adequate and it describes scenarios for replacing your boot disk or just adding another drive. The included installation software is easy to use It provides for partitioning, allocating volumes and copying files between drives. Very nice and fast. Jumper settings are clearly indicated in the documentation. I had no trouble by setting both drives to for "Cable Select" and using the cable that came with this drive. My computer is niticeable faster now. Good show!
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Summary: HDDs Never Perfect
Review: I've used Maxtor, Western Digital, Seagate and others since 1978. It doesn't matter which one you buy, you're going to get a bad drive now and then. With Western digital I did well for a few years then started getting bad drives. I switched to Maxtor. I'm buying one today...but have a half dozen in the office already. My chances have been about 50/50 with good/bad. What bothers me the most about Maxtor is that their 3 year warranty is not what it says. I have two Maxtor, unused HDDs sitting on the shelf. I tried exchanging them after only 2 months service (when they broke down) but Maxtor had all kinds of reasons for not doing it -- none of which made any sense. I will buy the 80gb today...if I have trouble with it, I'll try western digital again. It's a pain since I usually transfer an older drive (Maxtor this time) to the newer one, just to see the new one crash sometimes. That's computer land for you. Someday they'll pack it all into a chip and we'll just fry them.
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Summary: yes it does crash...
Review: in fact mine hasn't completed its imminent hard crash yet...it just burns for 30 minutes then quits... no excess heat anywhere in the case...no software bug...it's this HD... i won't rag on them totally, they have almost decent externals...except they don't vent well... "it's been a good HD and now it has to die..." z
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Summary: Works great
Review: Not sure how you could be confused about where the jumpers go. A diagram is right on the drive, and the directions tell you exactly where and what to do. The MaxBlast software it comes with copied my original drive to the new one and the new drive is now my primary drive. All this with less then 15 minutes of actual work. The rest of the time was it copying all the files....
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Summary: Correction
Review: The item description for this drive should read :
- 80 GB Capacity
- 8 MB Buffer
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Summary: Maxtor - Quiet, Fast & Reliable
Review: The Maxtor L01P080 7200 RPM 80 GB Hard Drive does what it says it does. When you get the box and open it, there are clear instructions for whatever purpose you intend to use it as, i.e., primary or slave drive. It tells you all jumper settings and walks you through the installation. I use it as my primary drive, sending my Western Digital OEM to the slave position. A lot of people have a problem with the unit, whether this drive or any other, due to technical inexperience. However, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to install this since everything is mapped out for you. One thing, it helps to have your original PC manual handy for removing/replacing/adding a hard drive. But if not, you can always look up your machine on the Web or call your manufacturer. Maxtor has live tech support to answer your questions if you have any regarding its products and they will walk you through the entire process if necessary. Of course, they won't take responsibility for you voiding your warrenty by opening the case, but that's expected.
Now, for the drive itself. It's not overly priced and delivers a solid, quiet and fast file accessing performance. I installed it, used the Maxtor CD Install Kit (which is recommended over using Windows Partitioner or FDISK for good reason, the Maxtor disk formats the drive to the companies standards because using Windows to format the drive will decrease the overall speed and handling of the unit), and had it up in about 30 minutes because I had to switch the drive placement inside the PC.
Once installed, the CD Kit will show you how to (and you can also do a Flash tutorial on Maxtor's website) transfer your data from your old disk drive, format new, make it a slave, et al.
Upgrading from a 2001 Western Digital drive I found the 8MB cache to be quick and I didn't have to wait but a mere few milliseconds when clicking on files, opening projects and loading programs. There's plenty of space to do your favorite video editing, storing video files, music or whatever you have to put on it. Of course, with this drive you'll get faster and noticeably so, however, please keep in mind that the hard drive is what it is -a hard drive - not a CPU, so if you are running a PII or PIII 1Ghz and below, any lag will generally be the processors fault, not the drive.
For the money, you can't beat the reliability and speed of this HD.
Note: Jumper settings. If, or when you remove your old hard drive, please look on that drive for specific jumper settings as they are not universal. Almost all drives list the specific settings to make it a slave or whatever you use it for, right on the top. If not, remove the drive, or find out what drive it is and contact either the manufacturers website and/or call them.
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