5 WD,Maxtor,Seagate Drives Tested
 

Is the Western Digital Caviar 800JB the fatest harddisk on earth? Can't you really hear the Maxtor Diamondmax Plus9 spin? What about the Seagate Barracuda IV, has it become antique? Read all about it in this 5 harddisk roundup, also featuring the Maxtor Diamondmax and the Western Digital 800BB.

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nice review :super:

nice Review, loadsa numbers to crunch. But the thing I really want to know is, which one is the most reliable ?

that's pretty hard to test Belgatom, the shops cant miss the HD drives for more then 2 weeks.

on such short period the durability is hard to test.
But! google + tech forums can answer you this question :)

thanks for your :super: comment, BiCker is silently very happy also ;)

rules :D

i bought myself a cuda IV,
and man!
i wasn't prepared for so much silence :)

i almost miss the sound of a hard drive ;)

nice one Bicker, you tha man.

have 2 DiamondMax 9 Plus 2mb cache drives now here
2x120gb hooked up to a HighPoint PCI ATA100 controller

takes 24seconds to copy 793Mb between them
pretty slick in my humble opinion

I changed the maxtor raid0 setup with 2 seagateV 80GB non raid.
HD's are almost inaudible and more then fast enough.
Took 4 to 5 hours to format and partition the 160GB though.

lol :)
only 30-40min here for 120gb =)

80GB NTFS partitioning with w2k = about 20 min
160 GB resizing + 6 partitions creation & formatting (NTFS and FAT32 (for software and drivers)) = 4 to 5 hours

that's way too long in my humble opinion :)

6 HD's installed, room for 2 more =)

getting pretty cramped though...

airflow rating = 0.5 / 10
:D

looks: 0,05 / 10 :s
efficiency: 11/10 ? :D

notice where the fans are.. that's right. front/rear/top
IDE cables go by.. the side

airflow => 8/10 =)
cpu temp= 42°C


each 120gb is on its own Channel giving max. performance
copying files from network + gaming is perfectly possible without slowdown.. excellent M² material :super:

lots of space

superflower psu with 3 fans ? also :super:
can you see what the hd temps are ? ( possible with speedfan : http://www.almico.com/speedfan408.exe )

do HD have temp sensors? :)

8 mb cache is worth the 18 euro's

10k hd = noise, better wait for second generation sata.
But if you need a disk, buy it now, 80 GB will keep you happy for a long time.

If your low on cash you can still buy a second hand drive.

I have 2x 120gb-2mb versions of the DiamondMax Plus 9, they are used for storage and fast as hell

only consider the 8mb cache if you tend to use it as a system drive or to install games onto it.

if you want a place to store home made movies or music, then the 8mb cache version wont be worth the extra money.

true

even 5400 rpm drives are good enough if only used for storage.

Main aspects you should consider for drives used as storage is price/gb, noise & reliability.

Hombres,

1) if you have an old 20 GB and an old 13 GB disk
2) if you buy a brand new 80 GB disk which is a lot faster than your old hd's

.. on which HD are you going to install the OS ?

Go with the 8MB version or buy a second hand drive for storage purposes.

let's just hope he makes his system parition smaller then 6gb otherwise making a ghost-image can become quite.. impossible :)