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Are these decent deals
I got a mailing from Staples. The following will be on sale starting 10/12:
Sandisk Cruzar 4 gig flash drive -- $17.99 Maxtor 500 gb ext. hard drive $89.99 I think one can't go wrong with the first item? Correct? What about the second deal? I can use another external hard drive. I've had one for about 4 years. It's a WD brand and I am very pleased with it. Years ago I heard some negative opinions on Maxtor. Is that still the collective opinion here? Mel |
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The 4GB flash drive is a good deal. Even better, Staples has Sandisk 8GB flash
drives for under $30. I got myself two of them at a slightly lower sale price. I would not hit a dog in the ass with a Maxtor drive. I would not give one to my worst enemy. A low price for garbage means that it is lower priced garbage than usual... Ben Myers On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:58:19 -0400, "MZB" wrote: I got a mailing from Staples. The following will be on sale starting 10/12: Sandisk Cruzar 4 gig flash drive -- $17.99 Maxtor 500 gb ext. hard drive $89.99 I think one can't go wrong with the first item? Correct? What about the second deal? I can use another external hard drive. I've had one for about 4 years. It's a WD brand and I am very pleased with it. Years ago I heard some negative opinions on Maxtor. Is that still the collective opinion here? Mel |
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Hi!
Sandisk Cruzar 4 gig flash drive -- $17.99 That's a pretty good deal from a well respected name. Sure, why not? Maxtor 500 gb ext. hard drive $89.99 No, no, no, no, no, no, no and no. Did I say no? g I have exactly three Maxtor drives that continue to give reliable service. The rest (and there have been lot, both belonging to me and others) have been bad news. I don't know if they've gotten any better since Seagate bought them. I doubt it and don't plan to find out. William |
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:01:26 -0400, Ben Myers
wrote: The 4GB flash drive is a good deal. Even better, Staples has Sandisk 8GB flash drives for under $30. I got myself two of them at a slightly lower sale price. I got a 8gig and love it for my files for troubleshooting, etc.. . I actually want a 16gig but they are too pricey for now. I got a couple of 4's and 2's lying around. I might be tempted for another 8gig??? if it's well priced. I agree, I'd skip the Maxtor drive too. |
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Thanks for the useful advice. I see opinions have not changed on Maxtor.
I'll skip it. Mel "William R. Walsh" wrote in message ... Hi! Sandisk Cruzar 4 gig flash drive -- $17.99 That's a pretty good deal from a well respected name. Sure, why not? Maxtor 500 gb ext. hard drive $89.99 No, no, no, no, no, no, no and no. Did I say no? g I have exactly three Maxtor drives that continue to give reliable service. The rest (and there have been lot, both belonging to me and others) have been bad news. I don't know if they've gotten any better since Seagate bought them. I doubt it and don't plan to find out. William |
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At the time of the acquistion, a Seagate press release stated that the Maxtor
brand name and current technology would be retained, and that the Maxtor line would be positioned as a consumer product. Ergo, Maxtor remains cheaply designed and manufactured low quality stuff sold to consumers who are often ignorant of brand name quality and who do not have the financial clout to stuff broken products back down the Seagate-Maxtor throat. Sure enough. Maxtor drives turn up in retail big box stores and in cheap consumer-oriented computers such as HP Pavilions, Compaq Presarios and GateMachines. The best we can all hope for is that the Maxtor tarnish does not rub off on Seagate drives and that Seagate finishes its production runs of Maxtor drives and substitutes its own more reliable technology to sell under the Maxtor name. AFAIK, the latter has not happened yet... Ben Myers On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:45:34 -0700 (PDT), "William R. Walsh" wrote: Hi! Sandisk Cruzar 4 gig flash drive -- $17.99 That's a pretty good deal from a well respected name. Sure, why not? Maxtor 500 gb ext. hard drive $89.99 No, no, no, no, no, no, no and no. Did I say no? g I have exactly three Maxtor drives that continue to give reliable service. The rest (and there have been lot, both belonging to me and others) have been bad news. I don't know if they've gotten any better since Seagate bought them. I doubt it and don't plan to find out. William |
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"MZB" wrote in
: I got a mailing from Staples. The following will be on sale starting 10/12: Sandisk Cruzar 4 gig flash drive -- $17.99 Maxtor 500 gb ext. hard drive $89.99 I think one can't go wrong with the first item? Correct? What about the second deal? I can use another external hard drive. I've had one for about 4 years. It's a WD brand and I am very pleased with it. Years ago I heard some negative opinions on Maxtor. Is that still the collective opinion here? Mel http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/produ...&om_keycode=85 http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/produ...&om_keycode=85 |
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