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Maxtor's 300 GB Monster Reviewed

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. like every new maxtor by matticus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Like every new Maxtor, the first one that comes out is the 5400/2MB model. This is for the warez kids and the movie people. Then, in a month or two, sure enough comes the 7200/8MB model for the uber-raid systems sold by Advanced Unibyte and Transtec and the like. Give it a year, and the rest of us will be able to afford it when the 500GB model comes out.
    Until then, it's dual 120s or 160s for price reasons.

  2. Better link ... by phoxix · · Score: 4, Informative

    The following link seems to work better ... http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20031008/index .html

  3. Personally... by blitzoid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Personally I'm not worried so much about speed as I am about reliability. I've had to RMA a couple maxtor drives recently, and losing 300gb of data would really, REALLY suck.

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  4. It's too big to be useful by The+One+KEA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A drive that big is hardly useful by itself; it's better off in a RAID 1 or RAID 1+0 configuration. Having 300GB of data on a single hard disk only guarantees that when the disk crashes and FUBARs all of your non-backed-up data, you'll wish you'd gotten 2 of the monsters. Drives this big are just too vulnerable when used singly without RAID or a sound backup plan.

    I'm all for innovation, but seriously, who needs a 300GB hard disks except for pr0n c0lLeCt0R5, warez d00ds and RAID junkies?

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  5. Running at 5400rpm by Nom+du+Keyboard · · 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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  6. Re:I'm waiting for the... by lakeland · · 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.

  7. Backup by rf0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OK performace might not be that hot but if it can fill a 100Mb ethernet connection then its going to work fine as a small office backup/storage system with RAID 1. Sometimes big and slow is better than fast and small.

    Rus

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  8. RAID 1 for me by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 4, Insightful
    With that much data at risk and Maxtor's lousy warranty length and previous poor reputation, I'd want a RAID 1 (mirroring) configuration for starters. Does push the cost up a bit.

    (For those of you frothing at the keyboard to tell me that RAID 1 is the worst configuration, there's nothing else that works with 2 drives and provides full data backup.)

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