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elandra
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Maxtor plus 9

Post by elandra » Sun Nov 24, 2002 5:47 pm

HI,

has anyone heard one of these, how are they for noise compared to the seagates, or the other FDB drive, they are quiet cheap compared to the others at only £70 for a 60GB drive.

PS It's not for me, it's for a friend who's harddrive has just broken (I will probably wait out for the SATA Cuda V : :) )

Thanks again guys

Elandra

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Post by Rusty075 » Sun Nov 24, 2002 10:10 pm

Maxtor gives the specs as 2.5 Bels idle, and 3.5 seek. Compared to Seagate's stats of 2.5 idle and 3.3 seek for a Barracuda V. But with the Maxtor you can have 80Gigs with only a single platter, so that should help some.

My D740X is virtually silent after being S^3'd. So if the new drive is at least as quiet (and it may very well be even more so) it should be an attractive candidate.

elandra
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Post by elandra » Mon Nov 25, 2002 5:20 am

cheers,

Thanks, for the speedy reply rusty. That sounds good enough for me to give him the go ahead, we'll see how it goes and I maybe able to do a comparison between them if I then get the barracuda V for for myself.

Elandra

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