Maxtor K0198000H 5400 RPM 80 GB Hard Drive

Average customer rating: 4.0

A review for Macintosh users
Great, drive, poor instructions.

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Maxtor K0198000H 5400 RPM 80 GB Hard Drive

Manufacturer: Maxtor
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00005ICE8

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Maximize your computers' data storage potential with Maxtor DiamondMax 80 hard drive. It employs Maxtor's Adaptive ATA Control for unsurpassed data integrity and the new Maxtor Silent Store technology for superior quiet acoustic performance. It has large formatted capacities, a sub-9.0 ms average seek time and an Ultra ATA/100 interface coupled with a high-speed 2 MB SDRAM cache buffer for data transfer speeds up to 100 megabytes per second. DiamondMax 80 drive ideally suites to storage-hungry multimedia and Internet environments where burst and sustained transfer rates are crucial. Whether your application is technical, multimedia, or Internet, the DiamondMax 80 delivers performance you can feel.

Customer Reviews:

A review for Macintosh users.......2002-01-15

I have a Macintosh G4 (AGP) that shipped with a 20gig Western Digital drive. My internal 20gig was filled to the brim with mp3 files and I now that I have an iPod to sync to, I didn't want to delete any of the mp3 files on my drive.

The Maxtor drive was recommended to me[....]P>I had never installed a hard drive in my life, but after surfing different Mac sites, I saw photos that showed how simple it was.

The drive works great and I had to make absolutely no modifications to the jumpers... literal plug-n-play and boot-up. I kept the internal 20gig and put this 80gig drive on top in the slave drive rack.

I connected the ribbon cable and power connector, closed the panel and started up the Mac. The drive didn't show up because it hadn't been initialized. I used Mac Drive Setup (all Macs should have a copy of this installed by default on the internal Hard Drive... there will also be a copy on your System CD) to initialize and partition the new drive which took less than 1 minute.

My less than perfect rating is due to the total absence of Mac-related documentation with this drive. The box it comes in has both the Windows and Macintosh symbols/trade markers, showing that the drive is compatible with both platforms.

The drive comes in an electrostatic bag and is well packed in heavy foam rubber and comes with a mounting bracket to make this drive fit in 5.25" drive bays in older PCs. It also ships with an extra ribbon cable and 8 screws.

In addition, it ships with a floppy disc and a CD-ROM. The instructions tell you that you will find all the information you need on the CD. That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of. If someone has a failed hard drive (not just adding a 2nd drive like I was doing), it is impossible for them to use the CD or do anything.

Still, the tiny printed sheet inside the box implied that all jumper settings, etc. would be on the CD-ROM. I loaded the CD in my Mac, and wouldn't you know it, not one Mac-compatible file on the whole disc.

I threw caution to the wind and plugged everything together as-is and it worked on the first try. I'm not sure whether this was solely due to the simplicity of the Mac or because of superior settings on the Maxtor drive, but either way, I am very pleased to now have space enough to use Photoshop and store more mp3 files. [....]

Great, drive, poor instructions........2001-07-07

Anyways, this hard drive is a great one, VERY VERY good...I can't even hear it right now, and it is fast as hell. 9ms? Try about 2 or 4. And the capacity is great too, though I don't run a warez site, I do collect alot of programs and that means I need lotsa space, not just 10 lousy mb like my old drive. The only fault with this is with the manual. It goes take out, place on holders, poor poor diagram of screws, put in drive, another poor poor diagram of where screws should go, and then put in tape/power (no diagram at all!). And also they only send you half the screws you need. But it gets a 4 because it makes up for all this in drive quality. I recommend this drive for more intermediate-advanced computer people, novices get a different product or you will have to pay for a computer store to do it for you.

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