Maxtor L01P120 7200 RPM 120 GB Internal Hard Drive

by Maxtor

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00007DX3I
• Item model number: L01P120
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 31, 2002

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

This Maxtor 7,200 RPM hard drive with Ultra ATA/133 interface yields a data transfer rate up to 133 MBps. It's ideal for speed-intensive applications like digital video editing, database searches, and the latest games. Included with the drive is MaxBlast Plus software for your PC, which guides you step-by-step through the installation process. The drive also features the latest advances in mechanical and electronic design, making it one of the industry's most reliable drives. The drive comes with an Ultra ATA cable, 5.25-inch mounting brackets, screws, and an illustrated installation poster.

Product Description

MAXTOR L01P120 - This 3.5-inch ATA / EIDE 120GB DiamondMax Plus 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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

43 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Your basic hard drive, July 19, 2003

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Derek G (North of Cyrodiil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxtor L01P120 7200 RPM 120 GB Internal Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

There is nothing spectacular about this drive, but nothing particularly bad either. The software they provide does not work correctly with Windows XP, but aside from that it's a good drive to get if you need to upgrade your existing system.

Speed - It's not going to set any records, but it's not slow either. It seems to fall in the middle of the pack for performance benchmarks according to the various websites that have evaluated this product.

Noise - Again, it's not the quietest drive on the market. In fact I've seen other models of Maxtor drives that were practically noise-free. This one you can hear slight chattering as it accesses the data, but I can barely hear it above the noise of the various cooling fans in my PC. In short, you would need to have supersonic hearing to be upset by the noise this one makes, but there are quieter drives out there.

Heat - Once again, it's in the middle of the road. Most of the drives out today are generating a lot more heat than the older drives. The reputable hardware testing sites I've checked put this in the middle of the pack. If you have a standard computer case and multiple hard drives, most likely there is very little space between them. I would recommend getting a quality ball bearing cooling fan for this and any drive if you want to extend its life, but if you're installing it in a cramped space with little airflow, then a cooling fan is a necessity due to the heat it generates.

Quite frankly, most of today's drives are quick enough and quiet enough that, with the exception of a few performance models, it's hard to tell any difference between them unless you're a serious computer gearhead. The only areas left to compete are in reliability, customer service, and software. I haven't had to deal with their customer service, and obviously I can't rate the reliability of this new purchase, but I can comment on the software.

The drive comes with Maxtor's MaxBlast hard drive cloning and utility software. This is the one area that they could've beat the competition and given me a reason to bump it up to four stars. Unfortunately, this software proved to be so much a disappointment that I'd recommend you do not use it. (In fact, it's so bad I should probably should bump this down to two stars.)

Right off the bat I knew I was in trouble as I have a separate Promise UDMA controller built into my ASUS A7V motherboard. MaxBlast couldn't detect it and simply crashed every time I tried booting it in DOS mode. DOS mode is the preferred and generally less error prone method of cloning an existing hard drive, but since I couldn't get it to work that way I attempted cloning my drive running MaxBlast from Windows XP. First off, it took over two hours to copy a 40GB drive over to this one (why?) Secondly, MaxBlast gives you options to set your partitions when you're formatting from scratch, but it didn't give me any options to set my partitions when I cloned my existing drive. It forces you to accept one partition that's the same size as your old drive, then creates a second partition for the remaining space. Not what I wanted. Finally, I would've accepted the previous two annoyances if it would've copied XP correctly. It did copy XP and I can boot up, but since the transfer I have run into all kinds of problems with Explorer crashing frequently, the system restore function no longer working, and other annoyances. Add that I've had to reregister some of my existing programs and it's apparent this is definitely not a clone of my old drive.

So there you go. Like the review title says, it's your basic hard drive with about the same specs as other drives out there. If the price is right and you just need extra storage space, it's worth buying. However, if you need to transfer data from an existing drive, plan on paying extra for some cloning software that actually works.

Hope the review helped.

27 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Massive Storage, fast access, seems to hold up, February 11, 2003

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D. Hunter - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxtor L01P120 7200 RPM 120 GB Internal Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

For those who need MASSIVE storage, it's time to step up to 120 gigabytes!

Depending on what kind of user you are, this drive is amazing.

If you're planning on maybe getting on the internet and using your computer to write documents, or do your taxes, you probably DO NOT need this much drive... but for hard-core users, this drive will suit you right down to the ground.

I actually moved to this drive from an 80 gig drive that I kept tapping out. I use Windows XP on a split partition with Red Hat Linux 8.0... each O/S (Operating System) takes up some space by themselves, and after I get going with loading up my CDs, Movies, Games, etc... I'm out of space.

I don't even bother with my entertainment center anymore, as I have all my media on my computer. As I tend to move around a lot, I find that not having to wait to unpack all my stuff to find the exact CD I want to listen to has made life pretty sweet!

This drive performs well enough, seems to be holding up okay, and the access time is fairly decent.

If you're looking for something a little smaller, Seagate's 80 Gig Barracuda has been an outstanding drive for me (I have 2, and I've used them both hard for the last 8 months or so). If you really don't have any huge storage needs, I also have had a lot of good experience with the 30 Gigabyte Maxtor drives. I have one right now that has been a rock for the last 2 years. I'm using it now as a back-up for important files!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WORRY FREE, August 1, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Maxtor L01P120 7200 RPM 120 GB Internal Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

copy my 40 gig to the 120 no problems.the enclosed booklet and software made it very easy to do it.the whole operation took 75minutes the only thing i had to do was turn nortons back on and put my aol password back in , it ask for it so i put it back in.very minor things to redo.its like a new pc again boots up faster hard drive is not as noisy.my first time to try this.maxtor makes it a worry free process.