Maxtor's 300 GB Monster Reviewed

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Maxtor's 300 GB Monster Reviewed

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 13, 2003 @08:59AM from the never-enough-space dept.

bustersnyvel writes "Tom's Hardware Guide has a nice article about Maxtor's new 300 GB DiamondMax harddisk. " The question is - will the drive perform despite having only 2mb of cache, and running at 5400 rpm?

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Holy Crap by crass751 · 2003-10-13 09:00 · Score: 1, Funny

300GB is a lot of pr0n
Running at 5400rpm by Nom+du+Keyboard · 2003-10-13 09:05 · Score: 4, Funny

Yes it only runs at 5400rpm...
...but as a timesaver, it comes with its own RIAA and MPAA subpoenas attached.

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Re:I'm waiting for the... by lakeland · 2003-10-13 09:08 · Score: 4, Funny

I've been watching HDD sizes for a while, and they seem to be narrowly beating Moore's law (15-16 months instead of 18.) So if we say we have 300GB today, with 100GB commonplace then I would say we will hit 1TB in about 27 months, with regular drives taking just over fourty months.
Re:who cares if it performs by Amiga+Lover · 2003-10-13 09:13 · Score: 2, Funny

Looking at the article:

They all pale, however, compared to Maxtor's monster, which has a full 300 GB of write space. If you're one of those people for whom "big" isn't big enough, this is the one for you.

300GB of write space... not read/write space. This drive is nothing but a subset of /dev/null with an ATA interface!
Re:It's too big to be useful by Gil-galad55 · 2003-10-13 09:28 · Score: 2, Funny

You know, I get that all the time.

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To follow knowledge like a sinking star, / Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. ("Ulysses", Tennyson)
And I said this 10 years ago with my 500MB HD by fejikso · 2003-10-13 09:58 · Score: 2, Funny

At last! I will never run out of space with this HD :)