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High-End, High-Capacity SATA-150 Roundup

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-they-still-make-that-awful-noise dept.

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."

3 of 234 comments (clear)

  1. Buy Seagate! by wpmegee · · Score: 4, Informative

    I always try to buy seagate, ~$10 price difference, and the 5-year warranty is priceless. You only get a 3-year warranty on most other drives, or 1 year if you buy retail Western Digital.

    And if you see Maxtor, run like the wind!

  2. Re:Linux SATA support? by martok · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can't speak to Ubunto, but SATA works fine using the Sarge install. Just boot the linux26 target rather than linux as the default Sarge install target uses Linux 2.4 which though does support SATA, doesn't support the wealth of chipsets 2.6 does. I've done several installs on SAATA root and all have gone well.

  3. Re:Linux SATA support? by ZagNuts · · Score: 3, Informative

    Any modern distro will boot from a sata drive. I have been booting from one in Redhat Enterprise for 2 years and I am writing from an Ubuntu install booted from a sata drive.