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.... Read More

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Date Reviewed: 12/08/2004
netman88 from CA Member Since: Aug 2004 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 7 Days	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. Summary: 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. 100% of People (3/3) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 05/03/2005
cwitter from MI Member Since: Apr 2005 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 5 Days	I bought this hard drive just a few days ago, and ... Strengths: Great Value Weaknesses: Slightly slugish performance Summary: 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. 100% of People (1/1) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 04/26/2004
gman757 from TX Member Since: Oct 2003 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 9 Months	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.... Summary: 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. 84% of People (36/43) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 11/26/2004
Bate119 from WA Member Since: Aug 2003 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 15 Months	Before installing this drive on my Gigabyte mobo ( ... Strengths: Great bang for the buck; inexpensive and reliable Weaknesses: 7,200 RPM Summary: 2004-11-26 10:07:57 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. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.