Hard drive comparison
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on July 15, 2002 at 1:48:55 PM
Lost Circuits does more than just compare IBMs and Maxtors, they also explain why a hard drive fails. Good read it.
The benchmark results came somewhat unexpected. Not only do they show that the GXP series is, in fact, faster than the D740X series but also show they very clearly that there is a substantial gain when using an external ATA133 controller, even if the drive used is only a UATA 100 drive. None of this shows in any of the synthetic benchmarks but this is not too surprising, after all, synthetic benchmarks are what they are: synthetic
The benchmark results came somewhat unexpected. Not only do they show that the GXP series is, in fact, faster than the D740X series but also show they very clearly that there is a substantial gain when using an external ATA133 controller, even if the drive used is only a UATA 100 drive. None of this shows in any of the synthetic benchmarks but this is not too surprising, after all, synthetic benchmarks are what they are: synthetic