Black friday

Reaperman@home · Post by **Reaperman@home** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 1:48 am

well let's see:

200gb maxtor HD $30 (already returned, $40 e-rebate still on the way) Don't get me started on what's wrong with the maxtor software.

grind-n-brew coffee maker $50
1gig sd expandable mp3 player $60
various items like, sd and cf cards, photo paper, etc.

Trv · Post by **Trv** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:25 am

Reaperman@home wrote:well let's see:

200gb maxtor HD $30 (already returned, $40 e-rebate still on the way) Don't get me started on what's wrong with the maxtor software.

You know they wont send you the $40 if you return it

Black friday it one of my top 3 days of the year. Its so much fun!

Radon199 · Post by **Radon199** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:55 am

Trv wrote:
Reaperman@home wrote:well let's see:

200gb maxtor HD $30 (already returned, $40 e-rebate still on the way) Don't get me started on what's wrong with the maxtor software.
You know they wont send you the $40 if you return it

Black friday it one of my top 3 days of the year. Its so much fun!

But it would be even cooler if they did, he would have made $10

Foxx373 · Post by **Foxx373** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:03 am

All you poor saps that actually WENT to staples for those 200GB HDDs... I stayed home and order'd it online for the same price PLUS free shipping. The last time i actually went OUT to a black firday sale, i wound up hitting and tripping people with my cane.

There is always a LOT of people here in NYC that camp outside the stores for black friday. I was one of the few smart people that just found loophomes with the online sales. I wound up getting a lot of stuff, way too much to list. Mice, wifi, bluetooth, Keyboard, cables, tools, chairs, PC components, and thats just the top of the list.

I tried getting one of those $10 BT headsets from rat shack, but they were sold out before 10AM.

kidw/32+systems · Post by **kidw/32+systems** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:40 am

lets see i got up at 5am to go to circuit city for 512pro duo cards and the laptop but those were gone went to best buy got 2 car stereos=$50, 2 512 pro duo=$30, destroy all humans=$20, and a psp starter kit=$10
and i went to walmart and got GTA:LCS for $35
and thats about it

Reaperman@home · Post by **Reaperman@home** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:11 am

Radon199 wrote:
Trv wrote:
Reaperman@home wrote:well let's see:

200gb maxtor HD $30 (already returned, $40 e-rebate still on the way) Don't get me started on what's wrong with the maxtor software.
You know they wont send you the $40 if you return it

Black friday it one of my top 3 days of the year. Its so much fun!
But it would be even cooler if they did, he would have made $10

I'm not sure their system is advanced enough to figure that out, though there's a decent chance it could be. Where I'm comming from is that once staples gets their money from me, I syspect they don't care about their vendors. But we'll see. Btw, it's $40 ahead, not $10 as I returned the disk for a full refund. I wonder if there's a way for me to check status online...

of course I wouldn't have had to do any of that, if their software worked correctly, but I ran out of creative ways to tell it what it needed to do. If I recall I had this trouble last year with the staples 160gig which I ended up just throwing on as a slave, and kicking a good burner out to usb in the process.

it's not like I wouldn't have 'worked' for the $40, I can tell you that it takes 14+ hours to write zeros to a 200gig drive. I lost a couple nights trying to make it do what it said it would. Then after a while the various versions of installation software began crashing and telling me I had a 33.6 gig drive even after the partitions were cleared and zeros written.

Foxx373 · Post by **Foxx373** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 12:24 pm

I have never had problems with maxtor drives. I know other people have, but i guess i just know what i am doing.

The rebate center can detect the returns. My friend and I bought 2 HDDs for our xbox's (the 160GB ones mentioned) but we accidentally swapped HDDs. I wound up returning my drive cause I waned a bigger one. When he went to mail in his rebate they told him the drive was returned and they couldnt honor the rebate. If you buy something, do the mail in rebate, get the check, THEN return it, you can make some cash that way, if you dont get cought.

Reaperman@home · Post by **Reaperman@home** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 12:48 pm

Foxx373 wrote:I have never had problems with maxtor drives. I know other people have, but i guess i just know what i am doing.

I am a federally employed IT professional, perfectly capable of installing a drive, and I really don't care for that tone.

The software works fine for simple things like formatting the drive for extra storage but copying my main and recovery boot partitions caused the software to lock and fail in increasingly spectacular ways. I really don't feel like messing with it more than $30 worth. Even when I started using other tools it would only register as a 33.6gb drive.

it is upsetting that they detect for returns, however. for mail in, staples will not return technology products after 14 days, it takes longer to get the rebate than that so that method will not work with them.

Foxx373 · Post by **Foxx373** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 1:28 pm

Sorry if i offended you Repairman@Home, i didnt intend my post to be that way. I just meant that when i had the maxtor drives that were reported to have problems, i was able to work arround them. I have one in my Xbox, an a few in my home server... I might not be federally emloyed, but I know more than your average poster here, seing that im probabbly one of the older people here. Its good to see some finely aged cheese here, it makes me feel less like a cold fart.

I had a 160GB drive being detected at a 137GB but it turns out it was because of my BIOS and XP being the conglomerate whore that it is. I agree though, a $30 drive shouldnt be worth $2000 of therapy bills. As standard storage they work just fine. I will probabbly slap that 200GB drive in my server and add another 200GB to my 1.6TB of space.

Again, sorry if i sounded like i was calling you dumb. Until you put a GB in a deodorant case, or cant understand what composte is, i wont think of you on the negitive side of the IQ scale.

Reaperman@home · Post by **Reaperman@home** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 1:51 pm

Sorry I went off, but after I spent so much time on it, it wasn't what I wanted to hear. I think nearly everybody has the 137gb limit for partitions.

Technically I could have done a clean install on it, but that just wasn't going to happen when I looked at the time involved. And years later trying to remember what application I used for whatever.

Foxx373 · Post by **Foxx373** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 1:53 pm

the quick fix for me was do a clean install of XP seeing it as a 137GB drive, then use partition magic 8.0 or higher to resize it. It wasnt an issue with the maxtor, it was XP. I think there is a Service Patch to fix it... i guess.

GamingRev · Post by **GamingRev** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:55 pm

200 GB for how much!!!???? IM SO JEALOUS!

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 3:00 pm

i got a 100GB maxtor SATA for $100. Was the 200gb one IDE? either way, i'm using it now and it works fine. No maxtor software, though.

Foxx373 · Post by **Foxx373** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 3:09 pm

200GB standard IDE for $30 after rebates. I dont see the big deal about SATA right now. Its only 67 Mhz faster. Not a big enoough performance boost for the inflated cost. When the Generation 2 SATA comes out though... *grins sadisitaclly* im glad im part of the IEEE. I get a heads up notice on ALL the fun new technology... 1.5Ghz FSB anyone?

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 3:22 pm

I've had a lot of bad luck with maxtor. My Compaq from a few years ago had a Quantum hard drive, and it died out (Maxtor bought Quantum, though I'm not sure if this was before of after the buyout) My dad bought an IBM computer a several years ago, and the hard drive crapped out after a few years. For a more recent example, I was trying to figure out what was wrong with my mom's friend's computer. It turned out to be the hard drive. I'll let you guess what brand it was

I think there's a reason they shortened the warantee on those things to a year, where Seagate and Western Digital are a few years longer. Speaking of which, I've had my Western Digital for about 3 years, and my Seagate for just over a year (bought it used) Neither have given me problems, and I kind of put them through a bit of hell.