What hard drive?? WD3200KS or Maxline III ???? 16mb Sata II NCQ..

[RedBeard]

Hey all,

I am looking at the these 2 drives:

Western Digital WD3200KS
320gb
16mb cache
7200rpm
Sata II w/ NCQ
3 year warranty
~147 ZZF

Maxtor Maxline III
300gb
16mb cache
7200rpm
Sata II w/ NCQ
5 year warranty
~137 ZZF

Does anybody use the WD3200KS? Is it a better drive? I can't find ANY reviews of this drive!

I don't want the Seagate 7800.9 because the performance doesn't stack up.

 

[RedBeard]

any opinions?? I want to buy the drive soon

 

[stevty2889]

I'm extremely happy with my Western Digital 250gb 16mb cache drive, so I can definatly recomend it. It's very fast.

I've never been much of a fan of Maxtor(which was recently bought out by Seagate), but the 5 year waranty looks nice(assuming seagate will honor the warenty as well after they take over).

 

[RedBeard]

hmm if the WD3200KS had a 5 year warranty I would not have started a thread

 

[natethegreat]

I have the WD3200KS. I ran HD-Tach on my rig a while back for somone at SPCR who was asking the same question as you, here is my score from the long test: HD Tach Been very happy with it so far...

edited for spelling

 

[RedBeard]

whoa, that is a nice HD Tach!

 

[RedBeard]

I ordered the WD3200KS, if anyone is interested they can let me know

 

[dnuggett]

Originally posted by: RedBeard
I ordered the WD3200KS, if anyone is interested they can let me know

You made the right choice, btw.

 

[Madwand1]

Originally posted by: RedBeard
whoa, that is a nice HD Tach!

I've run an HD Tach on a DiamondMax 10 300 GB SATA 3.0 Gb/s (6V300F0) which is a bit better than the WD's on transfer -- avg 59.9 MB/s, and bit worse on access -- 14.4ms (burst 216.6 MB/s, around same CPU utilization).

 

[Boztech]

According to Anand's reviews the Maxtor is a bit faster.

 

[alimoalem]

get the WD. if you're real paranoid about it breaking, break it (within warranty rules obviously) or sell it before the warranty's up

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: dnuggett

Originally posted by: RedBeard
I ordered the WD3200KS, if anyone is interested they can let me know

You made the right choice, btw.

 

[RedBeard]

Originally posted by: Boztech
According to Anand's reviews the Maxtor is a bit faster.

Anandtech doesn't have any review with the WD3200KS.. link?

 

[RedBeard]

Drive came and and it is fast AND quiet.

Windows installed very quickly, noticable improvement over my older drive.

Ran HDTack

Pic Here

 

[natethegreat]

Originally posted by: RedBeard
Drive came and and it is fast AND quiet.

Windows installed very quickly, noticable improvement over my older drive.

Ran HDTack

Pic Here

glad it worked out for ya. :thumbsup:

 

[fire400]

just get the NCQ drive, warranty doesn't matter with a 2 years diff., when the drive dies, the drive dies, and you will be shitless anyway.

articles say that the NCQ drive will sport up much quicker reflexes when you do real world tasks, save your seconds, get the NCQ.

 

[toliman]

Originally posted by: RedBeard
I ordered the WD3200KS, if anyone is interested they can let me know

i found this thread while looking for maxtor / seagate reviews before purchasing. the SE16 drives look good, on the 250/500gb model.

so, instead of dropping $300 on a swiftech kit, i've ordered 2, and i'm hoping to get RAID setup by the weekend on my stoic NF7-s v2.

 

[Ordeith]

I saw this post and downloaded HD tach for the heck of it, I wonder why the burst speed on my 150 gig raptor is much, much lower than the WD3200KS.

Stats were: random access 8.4ms
Cpu utilization: 3%
average read: 75.5mb/s
Burst speed: 131.1mb/s

So better access time, slightly more cpu utilization, higher average read, but much much lower burst transfer? Hrm.

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: Ordeith
I saw this post and downloaded HD tach for the heck of it, I wonder why the burst speed on my 150 gig raptor is much, much lower than the WD3200KS.

Stats were: random access 8.4ms
Cpu utilization: 3%
average read: 75.5mb/s
Burst speed: 131.1mb/s

So better access time, slightly more cpu utilization, higher average read, but much much lower burst transfer? Hrm.

Your read speed is excelent, but you aren't gonna get a burst rate above 150, on a SATA 150 drive, while the 3G drives, can get higher burst rates, the sustained rate is still lower than the raptor, and the raptor will still have faster access time. My raptors were the same way, so nothing out of the ordinary there.