L.A. area Fry's has Maxtor 500 GB for $159.95

[A J Ricaud]

MXT L01R500 500GB PATA.

Maxtor:
FRYS.com #: 4551327
7200RPM
16MB Buffer
ULTRA DMA/133

Good Wed. & Thurs. only-limit 4 per customer.

Outpost.com still shows it at $239.95.

[Andy in NYC]

Wouldn't a pair of these run into partition and partition size issues? I have 2 x 400 and had to create a dead partition to work around restrictions (this may have been fixed by now).