Seagate Barracuda ATA V vs. Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 at X-Bitlabs

[Adul]

Seagate vs Maxtor

 

[Dug]

I can't wait to get that Seagate and have no noise from my hd.

 

[Tripleshot]

Thanks, I think I will look into seagate solutions in the future. The warrenty roll back has sealed my resolve not to dedicate loyalty to Maxtor anymore. Maxtor provides great service, but they captiulated to reducing warrenty and the performance hits it Raid 0 make me want to look elsewhere. I will try Seagate on the next purchase.

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: Tripleshot
Thanks, I think I will look into seagate solutions in the future. The warrenty roll back has sealed my resolve not to dedicate loyalty to Maxtor anymore. Maxtor provides great service, but they captiulated to reducing warrenty and the performance hits it Raid 0 make me want to look elsewhere. I will try Seagate on the next purchase.

you do realize most HD manufacturers offer 1 year waranties now?

 

[Rand]

Originally posted by: Tripleshot
Thanks, I think I will look into seagate solutions in the future. The warrenty roll back has sealed my resolve not to dedicate loyalty to Maxtor anymore. Maxtor provides great service, but they captiulated to reducing warrenty and the performance hits it Raid 0 make me want to look elsewhere. I will try Seagate on the next purchase.

I'm confused... if your not purchasing Maxtor b/c of the reduced warranty, then why arent you skipping on Seagate also?
Besides IBM they've all reduced their warranties to 1yr.

If anything one would think you would be less pleased with Seagate then any other manufacturer as they have reduced warranties to 1yr on all of their IDE drives.
Whereas Maxtor still has 3yr's on their "MaxLine" series, and has recently been certified for 24/7 operation.
Western Digital still has 3yr's on the 'JB' line, while their other IDE drives are now 1yr.

Ironically the much maligned IBM still provides 3yr's for all of their IDE drives, though with a limited number of power on hours/month.

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: Rand

Originally posted by: Tripleshot
Thanks, I think I will look into seagate solutions in the future. The warrenty roll back has sealed my resolve not to dedicate loyalty to Maxtor anymore. Maxtor provides great service, but they captiulated to reducing warrenty and the performance hits it Raid 0 make me want to look elsewhere. I will try Seagate on the next purchase.

I'm confused... if your not purchasing Maxtor b/c of the reduced warranty, then why arent you skipping on Seagate also?
Besides IBM they've all reduced their warranties to 1yr.

If anything one would think you would be less pleased with Seagate then any other manufacturer as they have reduced warranties to 1yr on all of their IDE drives.
Whereas Maxtor still has 3yr's on their "MaxLine" series, and has recently been certified for 24/7 operation.
Western Digital still has 3yr's on the 'JB' line, while their other IDE drives are now 1yr.

Ironically the much maligned IBM still provides 3yr's for all of their IDE drives, though with a limited number of power on hours/month.

I think fujitsu still offers three years has well

 

[RanDum72]

Samsung still offers a three-year warranty.
As for the drives, the new Maxtors are clearly not Quantum-influenced, unlike the previous D740's. The PCB just looks like the older Maxtors. The review seems to confirm my observations with my setup. I have a Highpoint 372A chipset RAID controller and I compared two Maxtor D740 40giggers to two older Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 60 ina RAID 0 array. All drives are 7200rpm. The D740x do have lower access times under HDtach but the plus 60 drives have a huge advantage in transfer rates. The same thing under Sisoft Sandra.

 

[Rand]

Originally posted by: Adul

I think fujitsu still offers three years has well

Fujitsu has long since given up one the IDE market entirely though, well they still have a few notebook drives out but even those havent ben updated since late last year.
Their pretty much a SCSI only company now.
Randum72 is correct about Samsung though... their still providing a 3yr warranty. I'd forgotten about them.

 

[TenEgg]

When will the 8mb version of diamondmax plus 9 and barracuda V for sell?

 

[Celstar]

On a slightly OT note: newegg raised their 80GB barracuda IV $11 to $118. WTF? You'd think they want to get rid of old inventory and instead they jack up the price. Could this hint that the barracuda Vs arent going to be widely availible for a while?

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: Celstar
On a slightly OT note: newegg raised their 80GB barracuda IV $11 to $118. WTF? You'd think they want to get rid of old inventory and instead they jack up the price. Could this hint that the barracuda Vs arent going to be widely availible for a while?

Law of supply and demand. I would expect the demand for a very quiet, high performance drive to be high.

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by: TenEgg
When will the 8mb version of diamondmax plus 9 and barracuda V for sell?

There is no parallel ATA 8MB version of the Barracuda, only SATA. The 8MB 200GB DM+ 9 (same drive as Maxline Plus II) is available, I'm not sure about other capacities.