MAXTOR DiamondMax Plus 9 - 250GB U133 Internal IDE Hard Drive

by Maxtor

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.5 x 5 inches ; 4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008MOPW
• Item model number: L01P250
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 18, 2003

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Designed for high-intensity gaming and digital video editing, the Maxtor Ultra Series Kit features a hard drive ideal for power users who demand maximum performance. With an 8 MB cache-four times larger than that of ordinary 7200 RPM hard drives -- the drive is up to 20% faster than regular hard drives. Equipped with an Ultra ATA/133 interface and an ultra-quiet fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) motor, the drive combines blazing speed with ultra-quiet operation.

Whether your storage needs are for work or play, Maxtor Ultra Series Kits deliver ultra system performance.

Product Description

MAXTOR L01P250 - This 3.5-inch ATA / EIDE 250GB DiamondMax Plus 9 7200 RPM hard drive can improve system performance by as much as 33% over an equivalent 5400 RPM drive. That means faster system booting and application launching, game playing, and file saving! Warranty - One Year Works with Macintosh and PC

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Maxtor's ata133 drives rock, June 4, 2004

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Mark Guzowski (Idaho Falls, Idaho USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MAXTOR DiamondMax Plus 9 - 250GB U133 Internal IDE Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

I installed a maxtor ata133 (7200rpm, 8mb cache) on the 133 interface of a new asus mbd (the p4r800-v), and got transfer rates, in real apps, that blew away my previous speed demon (which cost more btw, was no slug, and was ata100 with 7200rpm 8mb disks). ata133, with a real 133 controller, is indeed a real improvement.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice drives - I bought 2 of them, December 3, 2005

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Drake-by-the-Lake "movie critic" (State of Euphoria) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MAXTOR DiamondMax Plus 9 - 250GB U133 Internal IDE Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

I have TWO of these babies in my computer (cost about $125 each), and they run like a charm. What I really love with Maxtor has nothing to do with the drives themselves. I love the software Maxtor gives free of charge that will make a carbon copy of an entire drive. Backing your system up, or upgrading from an old drive, is EZ as 1, 2, 3! No complaints. Money well-spent. Whether it's reliable or not, is too early to tell, and on that issue I must defer to more experienced consumers... and for the record? The number of other manufacturers besides Maxtor putting a 16 mb cache on their 250 gb drives is : ZERO. The standard at this time is 8 mb. Whether it really and truly makes a diff, I can't say, but at least Maxtor has a better spec.

4 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I am loving it..., July 9, 2004

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James Travis (Charlotte, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MAXTOR DiamondMax Plus 9 - 250GB U133 Internal IDE Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

Personally I own 3 Maxtor Drives. 1 is not 8 years old and hasn''t failed me yet, however it did replace a previous that went bad sector nuts in less than a month so there is always the chance.

I recently got this drive and bought an external drive kit for it (USB 2.0) and the drive outperforms my internal drive considerably. Tryin to decide now if I want to pick up another as I do a lot of video to DV transfers and this makes for great storage.

With all that said thou. Make sure you have a backup of all important data as you can potentially run into issues as with any PC part.