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Nobody looks yet on of a disk of 100 GB, and a lot notice produce present disks of 200 GB and more. PC Labs test two specimens and because we near it especially at an upgrade think, limit we us till classic IDE-models.

We pluggen the disks in a standard system with i865G-chipset and a Pentium 4 , 2.4 GHz - a powerful, but somewhat dated system. For who at an upgrade thinks, is it considerably to check or the mother plate the new capacity source recognizes. Older systems are impeded by limits of - for instance - 128 GB. Special applications, as Maxtors MaxBlast, help to bridge that barrire.

Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9

The DiamondMax Plus 9 has 8 MB cachememory and gives as only Ultra-DMA/133-ondersteuning on. That sounds impressive, but no single hard disk is present in state a such speed to get.

Yet the DiamondMax reveals Plus 9 self till a good performing disk. In the pure leestests set the HD an average tempo down of 53.2 MB/s with tops until 65.9 MB/s - a very impressive score.,. The writeresultaten its less impressive - the speed falls then back till a thin 14.1 MB/s. On that point must Maxtor the HD of Western Digital for let go.

Nevertheless the DiamondMax scores Plus 9 on about all other benchmarks better, and with that is for general applications the faster disk. Ankle for video or other real-time recordings can the higher writespeed of the Western Digital the turn give.

Someone else objection is the strong heat-development: if you the DiamondMax Plus 9 sturdily load, becomes the disk glowing hot. Extra cooling falls to guess with other words at and make see to we us also about the life span of this disk.