Maxtor K0196000H 60GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive

by Maxtor

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• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004YLYK
• Item model number: K0196000H
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #328,494 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Maxtor's 5,400 RPM DiamondMax 60 series is designed for consumers working with massive digital audio and video files. With data speeds closely matching those of 7,200 RPM products, the DiamondMax 60 series delivers outstanding data-transfer performance and has capacities up to 60 GB. It has an average seek time of less than 9 milliseconds, a 2 MB 100-MHz SDRAM cache buffer, and an UltraDMA 66 interface to ensure maximum data throughput. It also employ Maxtor's DualWave multiprocessor controller plus ShockBlock and MaxSafe feature sets for added reliability and superior protection from shock and damage.

This drive comes with a three-year warranty.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tricky Install But Solid Home Performer, January 3, 2001

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Jonas Miller (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxtor K0196000H 60GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

I favored this drive over the 40GB 7200RPM Maxtor because I consider space more important than speed for my particular uses. Maxtor themselves will tell you that the faster drive makes a big difference in performance, and can cut some HDD-intensive job times almost in half. So consider your need carefully when buying this one.

The drive comes with everything you need for Windows 9x. The MaxBlast utility should allow even older computers to see the drive with a special Maxtor driver placed in the boot sector of the drive. It also comes with a dual IDE cable and installation hardware.

Under Windows 2000, however, the install was tricky. The MaxBlast utility that comes with the drive didn't work properly, and only wanted to create twenty-eight FAT16 partitions. Web research and a call to Maxtor's helpful technical support number revealed that MaxBlast is incompatible with Windows 2000. On Maxtor's advice, I performed a low-level format of the drive and flashed my bios and the machine saw the drive properly. It should be noted that the drive is recognized as approx. 58 GB in Windows, due to differences in the way different industries calculate a gigabyte.

The drive has run flawlessly so far. It is the third Maxtor drive I've owned, and like the others it shows no problems at all. The drive is excellent for general home use. I occasionally notice the slower speed on very large file transfers, but it's usually not an issue at all.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Large HD for Digi-Cam Users, December 20, 2000

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Prof David T Wright (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maxtor K0196000H 60GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

My first Maxtor installed in a 2000 year modest-spec Compaq PC- some minor problems resolved finally by cheating & getting supplier to install (but have installed a couple of Western Digital & Seagate HD's over years more easily in Gateways/IBMs/ Dells). Overall: great price, reliable in use ( 4 months), fine-speed (domestic-level only), & capacity truly useful for digital camcorder work & archiving. Perhaps, even get a spare for an inexpensive RAID backup system.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent product., September 30, 2004

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Juan P. Gonzalez "100% Chapín..." (Somewhere in the World...) - See all my reviews
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I've just installed it and works perfectly. No problems during the installation process and great documentation from the manufacturer. Includes 5.25" installation brackets, extra flat cable and a gab of screws.