Anyone have a 7200rpm 80GB Maxtor? I am going from a 40GB IBM Deskstar.. Is the Maxtor HD slower?

[vizionblind]

also, does maxtor make anything bigger 7200rpm then a 80GB?

 

[tenoc]

My Maxtor 40's and 60 gig HD's are fast and reliable. Get the IBM's only if
you enjoy dealing with HD failures and RMA's!

 

[vizionblind]

anyone else?


I have had my 40gb ibm for a year with no problems.

 

[ShallowHal]

I have a Maxtor 40gb and it's great. I've never had an IBM hd because I constantly see people complaining about the problems they have with them.

 

[SteelCityFan]

Most drive companies list Spec sheets on their website which give max transfer rates etc... I would assume the 80GB to be faster simply because it is a later model.

 

[oldfart]

Check Storagereview. They have a pretty extensive database on drive performance.

 

[wasnlos]

The D740X models from MAXTOR are reliable, quiet and fast.
80GB is the biggest one currently from that line of drives.

 

[Night Blade]

Have the forementioned 80GB & it flies, although I can't compare to the IBM since i've never owned one . My last HD was the WD 400BB, the Maxtor is slightly faster & alot quieter.

 

[mee987]

I know this is a bit off topic, but have any of you maxtor owners run HD Tach on your drive? I am certain that there is a problem with my Maxtor 30GB 7200RPM drive, I get seek times above 21ms even with acoustic management disabled. The graph of sustained read speed spikes like a mofo. I have run hd tach on my old quantum 6.4gb 5400 drive and i get seek times of under 15ms with not a single spike in the graph of sustained read.

I would appreciate some feedback from other maxtor hdd owners who have used hd tach. TIA

I'd like to get something done about this, but I cant really call up maxtor and say "my drive isnt as fast as I think it should be."

 

[wasnlos]

The latest WD BBs are also very quiet compared to their former brothers.
But I'd still recommend the MAXTORs.

 

[RalfHutter]

mee987 - Yes I have HDtached my D740X 40gig and 80 gig drives.

I use the 80gig as a backup drive, It's set as Primary Slave. It shows great HD tach socres, 11.8ms access, 35,000kbps read, 5.5% CPU utilization, no wierd spikes.

I got the 40 gig drive to use as my boot drive. I set it as Primary Master and installed my OS and apps. Ran HDtach and got real weird results. Access was good at 12.2ms, read was real flakey: started off at only around 25,000kbps until it got to around the 22Gb area where it then went UP to 35,000+, but during all this there were these incredible spikes that went down to as low as 800kbps. The average read speed came out to onlty about 25.000kbps, CPU was 10%. Of course DMA was activated etc. Tried reformatting, no change. Installed Win2000 (instead of XP), no change, tried Win98, no change. Ran the Maxtor diagnostics (from the floppy - "MaxDiag" - I think) and the drive passed all the tests with flying colors. Then I wiped the drive again and set ist as a slave, installed it in my system and ran HDtach again. It came out great, 12.0ms access, 34,400kbps read, 5.4% CPU, no spikes. Go figure...... I couldn't so I RMA'd it back to Newegg. The drive seemed to work fine but that HDtach stuff really bugged me.

For now I'm sticking with my tried-and-true (knock wood) 60GXP's as my boot drives. I suppose I'll try the Maxtors again one of these days.

BTW - I don't know if it matters but the 80gig drive is a "j" ball bearing drive and the 40gigger was a"L" fluid bearing drive.

 

[454Casull]

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