Maxtor Is King!

[OC-Master]

http://www.maxtor.com/products/enterprise_apps/maxline_plusII/maxline_plusIIoverview.htm

250GB 7200RPM ATA-133/S-ATA 8MB CACHE!!! 3 YEAR WARRENTY


KING!



DS-Master

[FunkDaMonkMan]

or for near the price its prolly gunna cost, get a couple of the WD special edition drives and put them in raid 0 muahhahahahah!!!!

[Caffinehog]

Sweet! Only thing is, what the heck will I fill it with? That's more than enough to hold most people's movie collections! Hard drives are getting bigger faster than you can fill them! I don't think I could fill a terabyte of hard drive for years! And that's 1/4 of a terabyte!

[Arkaine23]

mmmm 4 of those in a raid 0 array

/me drools

[su root]

Originally posted by Caffinehog
Sweet! Only thing is, what the heck will I fill it with? That's more than enough to hold most people's movie collections! Hard drives are getting bigger faster than you can fill them! I don't think I could fill a terabyte of hard drive for years! And that's 1/4 of a terabyte!

don't worry.. if you don't fill it, your windows will eventually take it over, one byte at a time... or if that doesn't work, you can lend it to me, and I'll fill it for you :cool:

I manage my hd well, but it's already eaten my 10gig I set aside for windows & system.

Back when I bought my brand-new 129MB (yes, MB) hard drive, I thought, "Hey, i'll never fill it... it's 129 megs! that's like 90 floppy disks! wow!"

[Ridenow]

And I wonder what the failure rate is.....

Sorry, I still think Maxtors are junk. They look good on paper, but in the real world they just are not reliable. I heard a rumor about Seagate having a 10K IDE drive soon, that sounds good.

[su root]

I havn't had a single problem with them yet. I am currently running 6 maxtor hard drives, for the better part of 8 years or so, with not a single one dead. Maybe I'm just lucky.

[---X---]

I've been running a Maxtor for about 2.5 months now, granted that can't tell reliability, but so far its been awesome, and its worlds better than a 60 GXP :rolleyes:

With IDE, the problem is that what can be done in a single drive is done cheaper and more effectively in a simple 2-disk RAID 0. Until 10k IDE, S-ATA, or >250 GB drives come out, which would lower prices, IMHO this won't be worth it.

[futura2001]

Seagate has a 120 gig, 60 gig per platter, 8 mb cache drive coming out soon. Which means a potential of 240 gigs from one of those things. Yum. If they make a 10k S-ata drive I am going to drool and buy one of those things...
Then again, with 300 megs left on 10 gigs of space, I should upgrade really soon. D740X here we come!

[youngbuck]

Whats the best RAID configuration? Also, what type of performance increase will an 8MB buffer offer over a 2MB buffer?
-YB

[Pballer NH]

Hmm I have a new system I am putting together probably tomorrow that will have two 80 gig WD Special Editions striped together. I am sure it will be sweet. :beer:

[BaldHeadedDork]

Originally posted by youngbuck
Whats the best RAID configuration? Also, what type of performance increase will an 8MB buffer offer over a 2MB buffer?
-YB

The best RAID configuration depends on what data you are going to put on the drive.

If you're a gamer and don't have a lot of original data to lose, then the RAID 0 striping setup will boost your performance with a minimal risk of data loss. (In RAID 0, if one drive dies you lose all the data on both drives. Not a big deal if said drives are loaded with games, but...)

If you're running a business and have what is essentially your entire company on your PC (accounts reciveable and payable, payroll, orders, etc.) it is most important that you protect that data. Here, RAID 1, or mirroring, is your best choice because everything on one drive is automatically backed up to a second independent drive. If one fails the other takes over instantly.

There are combinations of mirroring and striping (RAID 5, RAID 1+0) that bring more speed to secure drive setups and vice-versa.

Now about cache size: In two otherwise identical drives with an 8MB and a 2MB cache, the drive with the larger cache will perform better. But, and this is a Rosie O'Donnell-size but, a lot of other factors effect hard drive performance. The only way to really know how they perform is to line 'em up and run them through the benchmarks.


BHD

[Arkaine23]

I've also had good luck with Maxtors. I have 2 D740x's and they have lived longer than my Western Digital Caviar, which lasted a whole 3 months. They seem to handle higher PCI bus than the WD could, although I think the Highpoint controller is holding them back a little.

[OC-Master]

These drives are garanteed to last for 1,000,000 Hours.

In years thats 365 x 24 = 8760 Hours in One Year

1000000 / 8760 = 114 Years Before Failure!!!!!!


Wow, think of it this way, your hard drive will still be spinning smooth well after you have passed away LOL



DS-Master

[OC-Master]

Originally posted by DS-Master
These drives are garanteed to last for 1,000,000 Hours.

In years thats 365 x 24 = 8760 Hours in One Year

1000000 / 8760 = 114 Years Before Failure!!!!!!


Wow, think of it this way, your hard drive will still be spinning smooth well after you have passed away LOL



DS-Master


Yeah yeah, I know that sounds dirty and sick but its the truth and useally if your drive passes the 3 years in the warrenty peroid, your gonna have a good LIFE drive LOL