High-End, High-Capacity SATA-150 Roundup

Maxtorn writes This review is published to cover a "300GB Maxtor drive, but provides a roundup covering a few high end, high capacity drives from Maxtor, Seagate, and Hitachi. Synthetic / real world performance, thermal results, and noise output are all covered on drives ranging from 200-500GB in capacity and with 8-16MB of cache memory. A solid reference for those shopping for a new drive."

Comments

Ways to use that extra space:

[ShaniaTwain]

Get several of these!

-make a personal backup of archive.org
-Store digital photos of every square inch of your neighborhood.
-ASCII pr0n. lots and lots of ASCII pr0n.

"300 GB ought to be enough for anybody"

Re:SATA-150 and Ultra ATA-133?

[Jeff DeMaagd]

It's two flavours, not a drive with two connectors.

I think the drive probably tastes the same, regardless of connector, though the SATA drive might taste better because the connector doesn't try poking holes in the toungue.

Re:SATA-150 and Ultra ATA-133?

[stinerman]

An internal drive can be hot-swapped if it is put in a special craddle with a handle and a lock.

Oh no, I do recall once doing some work on one of my older computers, and I did remove my CD-RW drive with the power on. It sparked, the system shut down, and my drive was dead, but i definitely "hot swapped" it. :-)

Self review?

[Call Me Black Cloud]

My favorite part is when the submitter reviews his own review:

A solid reference for those shopping for a new drive.

In other news, Rob Schneider says "Deuce Bigalow 2" is "a comedic tour-de-force that will leave you wanting more."

Dan Brown, author of "The DaVinci Code", further chimed in saying, "My book is 100% factual, and the Catholic Church is teh suX0r!!!1!!"

My Maxtor just died recently

[tomzyk]

I bought a Maxtor 120Gig drive about a year ago and it already died on me a little over a week ago. I had it full. FULL! And it died on me.

This is the first harddrive that has ever died on me in 15+ years of owning my own personal computer(s).

Does anyone know anything about resurrecting data from a dead Maxtor? Seriously!

Because I really don't want to spend all of that time re-ripping all of my CDs to OGGs again. And it's not just music that I lost: all of my backups of software apps, games, programming projects... hell, I just realized that I think my resume was on that drive too.

I've always used my newest harddrive as my backup drive, thinking that it would be the most reliable. guess I was wrong.
"... all your eggs in one basket" and all that... rassinfrassin.... :-(

(And the porn! Dear God, all of that porn... GONE!!!)

Re:SATA-150 and Ultra ATA-133?

[Doc Ruby]

I put my tongue on several platters of some old 500MB drives (5.25", full-height, RLL, 1991) I was salvaging at a scrapper. The Maxtors tasted different from the Seagates. But the Seagates were East Bay realtors, while the Maxtors were South Bay bankers. Maybe just the data tastes different.