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MAXTOR D740X ATA133: ball or fluid?

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kamiXnamja

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I hear that the D740x's come in ball and fluid...
I didn't know and I bought what seemed like two identical drives..
Turns out one is ball and one is fluid...
Since I ran them on raid 0, didn't even know the difference..
However, the ball bearing harddrive died the other day and I had to RMA..
Now I'm waiting on the new hd to come in.. and I'm not sure if I should keep it when it gets here or not...

Basically, my questions are:
Whats the difference between ball and fluid performance wise (if any)?
And how does it compare with the other drives that are out right now (i.e. 8MB cache hd's from WD, Maxtor, IBM)?
And since I'm running my hd's on raid0, is there a difference between having the 2MB vs the 8MB?
 
Whats the difference between ball and fluid performance wise (if any)?
And how does it compare with the other drives that are out right now (i.e. 8MB cache hd's from WD, Maxtor, IBM)?
And since I'm running my hd's on raid0, is there a difference between having the 2MB vs the 8MB?
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The fluid version is quieter,speed wise they`re the same,I think the WD 8MB HD is still the fastest at the moment,RAID wise I`m no expert but would say 8mb version should give you some speed advantage.



 
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