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WD 80GB/7200rpm/ATA100/8mb buffer or Maxtor 80GB/7200rpm/ATA133/2mb buffer

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xrayyellowzebra

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Which is faster? After reading many articles, it seems like the Western Digital hard drive is faster. I thought ATA 133 would be faster than ATA 100. Does Western Digital make ATA 133 with 8MB buffer?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
ATA 133 only refers to the burst speed of the drives. It is an unrealized speed also at least so far. No one has been able to show an advantage for it yet. The WD drive is the fastest drive as tested by Storage review.
 
Although the seek time is not as good as others, the WD's data transfer rate is superior to IBM, Maxtor, Seagate, etc. Even though ATA 133 is a reality, no known hdd has pushed to the ATA 100 limits, let alone 133.

~box
 
Originally posted by: Xerox Man
Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
WarCon speaks truth, the WD is best Ja?!
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Hehe . . . no, the best is two of them bad boys, in RAID0 - like I gots. 😛 😀
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Cool 😎 Does your setup actually turn in better scores than SCSI on some benches like I keep hearing?
 
Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Originally posted by: Xerox Man
Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
WarCon speaks truth, the WD is best Ja?!
Click to expand...

Hehe . . . no, the best is two of them bad boys, in RAID0 - like I gots. 😛 😀
Click to expand...
Cool 😎 Does your setup actually turn in better scores than SCSI on some benches like I keep hearing?
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A while back there was a thread in OT where ~150 people posted their PC Mark 2001 benches. My HD score was the highest of anyone's.

are the WD drives noisy at all ?
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No, not at all.

 
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