Maxtor L01P160 7200 RPM 160 GB Internal Hard Drive

by Maxtor

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008DSRF
• Item model number: L01P160
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 30, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Maxtor DiamondMax Plus hard drive is designed to meet your need for performance. The Maxtor-developed Ultra ATA/133 interface has a data transfer rate of 133 MBps. With its leading-edge interface, end users will experience blazing-fast data transfer rates. Maxtor's Quiet Drive Technology Plus delivers world-class acoustics, with fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) motors, available on all models. This innovation improves the overall sound quality, thus enhancing the user experience.

Like previous generations, the DiamondMax Plus takes reliability and data integrity to an even higher level with Maxtor's shock and data protection systems, which give the user enhanced protection against both operating and nonoperating shock, and verifies essential functions in seconds to eliminate costly and unnecessary drive returns. These systems deliver high reliability as shown by the DiamondMax Plus product line's annualized return rate (ARR) of less than one percent.

Product Description

MAXTOR L01P160 - This 3.5-inch ATA / EIDE 160GB 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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Just what my computer needed, June 24, 2003

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Eugene Mah "physics geek" (Charleston, SC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxtor L01P160 7200 RPM 160 GB Internal Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

Got this drive to stuff into my computer so I'd have enough storage space for my new video editing hobby. Installation was a snap, although people with older computers/operating systems might need a separate ATA/133 controller to take advantage of the full capacity/speed of the drive. Once I remembered how to pop the cover off my computer, I had the drive in and my system up in about 15 minutes (with 5 spent removing a CD drive).

The included manual covers installation pretty well, and lists requirements for Windows and Mac systems. All the hardware needed for installation is included (screws, IDE ribbon cable), although if you're mounting in a 5 1/4" bay, you'll need a mounting bracket if you don't already have one. An included CD contains installation software and hard drive utilities that let you partition your drive and perform disk to disk copies. The software also lets you create backup copies of the MBR (Master Boot Record) for safe keeping.

Formatted capacity is 153GB according to Windows, and took about 45 minutes. Access speed is fast, and the drive is pretty quiet. Noise from the heads flicking about is audible, but not distracting.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Maxtor does not stand behind its products., September 29, 2004

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Shirley Evans (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maxtor L01P160 7200 RPM 160 GB Internal Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

Wait until you have problems with a Maxtor drive. Their tech support is lousy and their customer service is even worse. Forget their warranty, you can do better with Western Digital, Seagate or Hitachi.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So far, So Good, February 11, 2004

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Phillip B. Tursky "lakephillip" (Lucerne, Ca. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxtor L01P160 7200 RPM 160 GB Internal Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

So far everything has worked right. This was the first time I installed a new hard drive. I used the instruction manual from Sony for my VAIO Digital Studio computer I got in '01. The Manual was available online. I followed Sony's instructions, and used the Windows XP Utility from the Computer Management Link on my computer, and although it took near an hour to format, it works, too early to say how well, but all appears to be operating in acceptible parameters. Only complaint is occasional noises of the spindle moving. Not sure whether this is normal. It is louder than the 60G original hard drive(master), but with this drive's sheer size, the occasional noise seems to be normal. So far so good. [Two Months Later]This hard drive has perfomed very well; the spindle noise has left , and the access time is incredibly fast. Highly recommeded.