Maxtor or Western Digital?

[CraigRT]

like many people are saying.. WD of old is good, WD of new isn't. Maxtor now is good, whereas I never liked Maxtor before. it's kind of doing a Turn around.
like Quantum too. the Fireball plus LM series are just sweet, whereas the AS are just not as good.
If I was going to get a new drive it would no doubt be a Fujitsu. the Fujitsu in this comp (20 gig 7200RPM) pulls almost 20K in sandra and it's quiet and I know it will be reliable, my favorite drives in this order are: Fujitsu and IBM... Maxtor and Seagate are also good!

 

[Playitagainsam]

Guys, please!

don't get academic and/or confrontional on me....

What do you think of the additional details and info I need? Please stick to it...

Thanks much!

 

[PCResources]

sharkeeper

Sure, you can benchmark anything, but my tests or should i say PC Resources tests do not consist of any normal benchmark, it consists of a numer of actual read/writes, made from scrips moving folders, it consists of saving opening documents, pictures, movies and so on in differente programs, it also has a script that involves video editing, gameplay and just about anything you could think of...

These are not rumors you say... But they are.... You are wrong here, even if you would stripe a brand new Quantum disk with a very old seagate disk, you would have no problems regarding stability...

And HDD companies optimizing their disks for benchmarks... well, that is truly an urban legend... it is usually the other way around... HDD suppliers are not stupid, they know people will find out the truth pretty soon, and what would they have then, a whole lot of HDD's that are fast only when running benchmarks... Come on, get real...

And BTW, you could stripe two Maxtors, old maxtors that is, and what would you get, you would get a huge increase in transfer rate, just about the same (percentage is what counts) increase that you would get striping any other drives... have you ever tried, i did, just to prove you wrong...

Oh, i probably should mention that i have tested more than 60 000 disks by now, so i should know...

Patrick Palm

PC Resources

 

[Playitagainsam]

I think for the moment I shall stay with the Maxtor Diamond Plus (40/7200), and I'll simply replace my old hard drive with it...

Thanks for all your answers!

 

[AmdEmAll]

I just got a Maxtor 40GB ata/100 7200rpm DiamondMax from Best buy for $149 and it is actually the new DiamondMax Plus 60. Faster then the IBM's. This thing really flys.