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[cyberttc]

How do I use the database to find out the fastest IDE hardrive there?

 

[ElFenix]

the fastest drive is pretty much always on the leaderboard. you can then compare that drive to other recent drives (it would be nice if they would date the drive in the database)

 

[Bovinicus]

The database is a reliability database. There is a picture link at the top of the page that says Leaderboard. It has the Western Digital 1000BB Special Edition (8MB Cache) listed as the fastest drive.

 

[cyberttc]

How do I find out the fastest seek time of all IDE hardrives?

 

[kly1222]

Go here.

See where it says disk access time under low level measurements. Most current (current=fastest) 72000rpm hard drives are ranked there. Looks like the 60gxp comes out on top.

 

[neuralfx]

ya the 1000bb just recently overtook the 60gxp as the overall leader, i'd still choose the 60gxp, just me though =) .. good choice for information as well .. good luck ..
-neural

 

[millsy]

They don't seem to have the Maxtor D740x in there, where it was a month ago.
I thought this was right up competing against the 60GXP.

 

[Soccerman]

I haven't checked in a while, but I know they had the D740X or whatever it's called as the best access time. of course, their measurements of the Western Digital drive with 8 megs cache show that in real life performance it does better even with a slow access time.

anywho, the fastest hard drive out there (that has rotating platters) is the Seagate Cheetah X15-36LP (god know's how I remember that name).

 

[WyteWatt]

Yep the Maxtor D740x has a 12.2 ms access time so its access time is even faster than IBM!!!!!! 🙂

 

[soulm4tter]

<< anywho, the fastest hard drive out there (that has rotating platters) is the Seagate Cheetah X15-36LP (god know's how I remember that name). >>


LOL, its easy to remember when you dream about it all the time.

 

[Pariah]

The IDE drives with the fastest access time are the now defunct Quantum Fireball+ series, except for the most recent AS+ series. The KA+, KX+ and LM+ were all based on the their SCSI counterpart the Atlas series. The AS+ was built from the ground up as an IDE drive and didn't have the same low access times. All these drives except the AS+ (marketed by Maxtor as DM60+ drives I believe) are now pretty outdated and very difficult to find. The current mainstream drive to beat is the WD 1200BB, the top of the line cost is no obstacle IDE drive is the WD 1000BB SE (also called WD 1000JB). Unfortunately, the 1200BB only comes in a 120GB size, and the 1000BB SE only comes in 100GB. If you want something smaller, the Maxtor D740X (actually a Quantum drive) is probably the best choice.