Maxtor 60gig CHEAP!

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Karsten

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I guess availability does matter too... ZERO in stock... no wonder with that price. :(
 
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MontyBurns

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A fantastic drive for storing MP3's and backups, though. 5400 will do you just fine for that.

If only they had the damn thing.
 
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MrBeetle

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Geez, when will people realize.... This drive @ 5400 RPM is faster than smaller drives at 7200RPM.

Suppose you have a 9 GB drive, spinning at 10000 RPM, that is 3" in diameter. The circumferance is roughly 9", so lets say there is 1GB per inch. At 10000 RPM, it can read 90000GB a data a minuite.

Now, suppose you have a 90GB drive, spinning at 5000 RPM. Circ. is still 9", so there is now 10GB per inch. At 5000 RPM, it will read 450000 GB a minuite. (That is about 5x the amount before)

If the data is compressed more (physically) on the drive, the slower speeds will still be faster than before. Get it?
 
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MontyBurns

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Good post MrBeetle. And to others interested in this topic, if you haven't checked out StorageReview, do so. (In fact, in their review of this drive they explain how it can, indeed, outperform 7200 drives.)

Regardless, this drive is aimed at people looking to get the most bang for their buck, not the highest performance possible. For storing hulking programs like Microsoft Office, or like I said above, for downloads like MP3's, there's absolutely no reason to pay a lot more for a smaller 7200 drive. You won't notice the performance difference a bit.

 
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FuzzyBee

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The $5 more pays for the flash upgrade to ATA/100 - or, you can do it yourself and save the sawbuck.
 
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CyBrShRk

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Just a quick question for those people complaining about the drive only being 5400 rpm...what processor are you guys running? I'm just trying to justify telling my friends that their 5400 drives suck ass when I buy a new 7200 and don't want to get caught not knowing what to say. I'm figuring at least a 800Mhz processor to qualify to brag about spindle speed. I'm also figuring that I should throw in a motherboard without an ISA slot in there. If they catch me with an ISA slot in there I'm done. Should I beef up to a 32 meg video card? I'm thinking I better if I want to brag about 7200 rpm. Do you think I should throw away my trusty PCI Winmodem...that would definitely increase my chances of getting busted with a slow machine. Please let me know, I want to start bragging about spindle speed as soon as possible. I'm going to a big barbecue next weekend and would like to be set up by then.
 
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youseelabruin

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i have an ibm that spins at 7-2-0-0 rpms. it is soooo darn fast! i woulndnt touch one of those slow drives with a 5400 foot pole. the post above mine was funny.

btw, what is a "sawbuck"?
 
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RichieZ

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IBM 75GXP is pretty good, I've got the 15GB 75GXP too but my boot drive a 9GB Cheetah 18XL blows it out of the water!
 
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youseelabruin

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OT but i didnt know "sawbuck" was an actual word. so i looked it up.

Main Entry: saw·buck
Pronunciation: 'so-"b&k
Function: noun
Date: 1850
1 slang : a 10-dollar bill
2 : SAWHORSE; especially : one with X-shaped ends

i will be using this new word i learned a lot more now.
 
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WiKKed

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Just so everyone knows.
The maxtor 60 gig drive has acoustic management built into it, which slows down the drive but makes it quiet. BUT this can be disabled. I disabled it on my drive.

"Acoustic Management adjusts the speed of the head seeks, reducing the ambient sound level during the normal operation of Maxtor hard drives. This does not affect sound levels for power on operations. The performance of the drive is affected when Acoustic Management is enabled."

Do download the utility to disable Acoustic Management go to:
http://www.maxtor.com/technology/technotes/21007.html

The drive is also ATA66 but it is upgradable to ATA100. For that patch go to:
http://www.maxtor.com/technology/technotes/21009.html

The drive is a really great drive. I boot from an Atlas 10K so when I bought it I didn't really care about speed, but it seems to perform quite well. I'm actually thinking of picking up another one.

On another note, I read on Maxtor's web site that Google just bought 3,000 Maxtor 7200rpm 40gig drives for their search engine. Just thought that was kinda neat. Thats what 120 terrabytes or something??? Pretty soon they'll reach a googolbyte! =)
Anyway.. hope this helps some people out.

 
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MagisterLudi

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I've blathered on about this before. A 5400 rpm drive can easily beat a 7200 rpm drive.

The important thing is that raw speed is based on the following relationship:

RPM x Areal Density

where areal density can be approximated as the total capacity divided by the number of physical heads. In the same generation of drives (i.e., 5GB platter, 6GB platter, etc.), RPM tends to rule, speedwise. However, if you get a newer drive with lower RPMs, the areal density can make up for the difference and then some.

The Maxtor 60GB beats the pants off most 7200 drives other than the high end Quantum IDE and the high end IBMs. I can safely say that the 60GB Maxtor is faster than any IDE drive that's smaller than 15 GB. I have two of them striped together on my mangled Promise Ultra, and it's a nice and speedy 120GB volume.

This doesn't negate the need for a benchmark, but it's a useful back-of-the-envelope comparison tool.
 
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MisterPotatoHead

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2 bones = 2 dollars
2 G's = 2000 dollars
60 gig 5400 @ UDMA 100 = fast! (faster than a 30 gig 7200 RPM)
Transfer rate matters, not how fast it's rotating! :)
 
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This drive for storage... 15gig IBM GXP75 for bootup... 15gigs/platter times 7200rpm = good bootup drive. :)
 
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