Maxtor L01P200 Internal 7200 RPM 200 GB Hard Drive

by Maxtor

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00007KVHZ
• Item model number: L01P200
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 6, 2003

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, like an 8 MB buffer, 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 L01P200 - This 3.5-inch ATA / EIDE 200GB 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 Note - Your motherboard must be ATA -133 compatible to achieve full speed benefits -- or you can add an optional PCI Adapter Card

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Hard Drive, April 18, 2004

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RazrElite (Florida, US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maxtor L01P200 Internal 7200 RPM 200 GB Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

This is a great drive. It's fast (about twice as fast as my other 2 and 3 year old 7200rpm drives) and it's silent and seems to be reliable. It's also at a great price for the capacity, and it's Maxtor, a trusted name in hard drives. I got the ATA card with mine, but I used another Silicon Image card I purchased previously (it has the same features but gave less problems, my computer took longer than it should to start up with the Maxtor ATA card). The MaxBlast software worked perfectly and never gave me any trouble. All those giving bad reviews because of the software or lack of card need to stop complaining. The point is, the actual hard drive is great, and you won't go wrong purchasing it. I like it so much, I decided to purchase the 160 gig version to replace two of my other hard drives.

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Always been satified with Maxtor, February 8, 2005

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C. Johnson (Lawrenceville, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxtor L01P200 Internal 7200 RPM 200 GB Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

And this one is no different. I had purchased a 160GB Samsung to start building my new PC. I took this drive home only to find that their partitioning software that you have to download from their website did not even work. Instead of searching the internet for third party software to do this, I took the drive back to the store and got the 200GB Maxtor instead. Installation was simple, I just popped it into my PC and it was recognized immediately. I installed the Max Blast software and the drive was partitioned, formatted and ready to use in less than 5 minutes. NOTE: Your registry has to be modified to be able to recognize drives larger than 137 MB, but the Maxtor software does this for you.

I will always buy Maxtor from now on; great products with no BS.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Caution... hot zone..., November 3, 2006

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Mark E. Hopkins "Techie Guru" (Mountlake Terrace, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxtor L01P200 Internal 7200 RPM 200 GB Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

Maxtor is typically a trusted name for me, having purchased dozens upon dozens of drives for various purposes during the course of my IT career. So, when I wanted to upgrade my personal portable USB drive (which contains my digital media), purchasing the Maxtor 200GB seemed to be a no-brainer. Let me add that I've used a slew of different drive brands and sizes in a slew of external cases with no issues...

Unfortunately, Maxtor seems to have slipped in the QA department. Typically, if a drive is going to fail, it will fail within the first 30 days. This one did. So did the next one. And THAT was a first EVER in over 10 years in the IT industry. I was pretty much floored.

I found that both failed units exuded excessive heat given the 7200RPM of this drive and both failed after heavy I/O usage causing the heat to increase even more. Now, we all know drives get warm, but this baby (both) were HOT to the touch. Something is amiss in Maxtor factory.

Fortunately, this drive was an active access drive with data duplicated on another drive (also a Maxtor, but 300GB and is working fabulous, with limited heat... go figure) so I did not lose any data.

Given that my 300GB mentioned above, and my personal experience with Maxtor in the past, I'm speculating that the large number of negative reviews indicate simply a manufacturing defect. Move up to the 300GB model, you'll get more space, and hopefully avoid whatever's plaguing Maxtor's 200GB line.