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They are now selling SATA2 w/ 16MB buffer cache @ 7200RPM. Now the only thing I do not like is the RPM's. It should be at least 10,000 RPM, or you will not really benefit with the extra SATA2 speed of 300 instead of the SATA1 150 ;)
Yes, I think Maxtor is better anyway. There HD's make a little more noise, but you can't hardly tell anyway.
They are very fast & competative ;)
I've always had problems with Maxtor drives. I now use a WD 200gb with 8mb Cache. Never had any problems with it.
Also, at school, we use all WD drives. The only problem we've ever had with one is when one of the tech's dropped one on the concrete floor. (We then proceided to cut a hole in the casing and turn it on to watch it work. Pretty cool!).
I like Maxtors. I recently bought a 250 GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10. It's SATA along with 16 MB of cache, 7200 RPM. Regarding RPM's, though, I can live with 7200 RPM. Particularly with NCQ, performance gets pretty nice.
What I'd rather see happen is companies move away from cranking the platters to faster and faster RPM's. The faster you get, the less you can depend on your drive, due to mechanical wear. Besides, no matter how fast you get the dang platter spinning (unless you go REALLY fast...) a purely solid-state drive would both be faster and more reliable. As of late, that's the recognized reality. HDD's are now the computer's biggest slowdown.
i dont like maxtor, every maxtor hard drive i have gotten has ended in a screaming horror. and then the computer doesnt boot up again until you get a new hard drive. :(
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I strongly feel that harddrive companies are lazy as heck. I mean, look how long they all have been making 7200RPM drives. Garbage, they should of been at least 10,000RPM to 15,000RPM right now as a strict standard.
And high end HD's like SCSI should be at least pumping with more than 20,000RPM to 30,000RPM.
Heck, if I was CEO of a HD company, I would have already had a HD break threw with a 15,000RPM HD, a 24MB buffer cache & SATA2 aling with new innovative technology firsts into that HD for a decent price. But that would be me, IMO
HD companies have been very lazy selling there non-innovative HD's for loads of money while AMD, ATI, Intel & NVIDIA & other DDR companies are hard at work trying to increase performance.
Well, the problem is the HD, if you have a slow system but it is suppost to be faster, well, your HD is holding you up IMO.
I strongly feel that harddrive companies are lazy as heck. I mean, look how long they all have been making 7200RPM drives. Garbage, they should of been at least 10,000RPM to 15,000RPM right now as a strict standard.
And high end HD's like SCSI should be at least pumping with more than 20,000RPM to 30,000RPM.
Heck, if I was CEO of a HD company, I would have already had a HD break threw with a 15,000RPM HD, a 24MB buffer cache & SATA2 aling with new innovative technology firsts into that HD for a decent price. But that would be me, IMO
HD companies have been very lazy selling there non-innovative HD's for loads of money while AMD, ATI, Intel & NVIDIA & other DDR companies are hard at work trying to increase performance.
Well, the problem is the HD, if you have a slow system but it is suppost to be faster, well, your HD is holding you up IMO.
Later,
I agree, but with 20,000RPM hard drives, the cost of the drive jumps and so does the amount of cooling required to keep the drive cool.
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