This is where it gets interesting be cause the first thing I did was move 15 gigabytes of MP3s from my SATA150 to another partition. That’s a lot of files and I thought it would take 20 minutes or so, but it only took 8min 12 seconds! Now this drive has my attention! The next test was to run Sandra 2005 and benchmark the drive speeds, comparing my SATA and Samsung drives.
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AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ @2.65GHZ Vcore 1.57 Test drives: SATA 150 Western Digital 120Gb Caviar SE 8Mb cache Benchmark Programs: |
SiSoft Sandra posted a drive index result of of 40mb/s, which was quite interesting as my SATA (without RAID) was equally as fast. The drive size has a lot to do with the results, as more bytes are packed into a tinier space in a higher-capacity drive. Next test was Everest Home Edition, which reported that my drive actually sports 16MB cache, instead of the 8MB posted on the box!
The PCMARK scores were very biased towards the Maxtor…
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Conclusion:
For an off-the-shelf retail drive the Maxtor Diamondmax 6B200R0 is well packaged and easy to use from the start. The Installation guide is well organized and uses illustrations to aid the novice user. Overall the drive is worth the $100 price tag, especially since the drive has bonus 16MB cache. The drive would make a wonderful addition to any system needing extra storage space, or as a primary drive. This drive has surprising performance, and I shall not be wary of buying another Maxtor drive (well, soon to be Seagate)!.
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