Being in need of a new HDD I settled on the Maxtor D740X ,
being the only readily available ATA 133 7200rpm HDD at the moment .
I chose the 40gig model and I must say that on installing the drive
that it is the most quiet HDD used by me to date . To benchmark the
drive ive used Winbench 99 ver 2 . and Sisoft sandra 2002. And i'll
be running it against my old main drive , the Seagate Barracuda 3
ATA100 7200rpm which has a good rep for being a fast drive . BENCHMARKING: My
system consists of : Epox 8k3a MB KT333 , 256mb pc2700 , GF2ti ,
Soundblaster live value , Maxtor 40gig ATA133 7200rpm C drive ,
Seagate 20gig ATA 100 7200rpm D drive . 50x cdrom , 32x8x4
burner . Winbench 99
ver 2. My Seagate 1st : Seagate
20gig ATA 100 7200rpm WEIGHTED SUITE
SCORE UNITS
Business Disk WinMark 99 7420 [2,3]
Thousand Bytes/Sec
High-End Disk WinMark 99 15400 [2,3]
Thousand Bytes/Sec
TEST SCORE UNITS
Disk Playback/Bus [1,2,3]
Overall 7420 Thousand Bytes/Sec
Disk Playback/HE [1,2,3]
Overall 15400 Thousand Bytes/Sec
AVS/Express 3.4 13800 Thousand Bytes/Sec
FrontPage 98 55000 Thousand Bytes/Sec
MicroStation SE 19900 Thousand Bytes/Sec
Photoshop 4.0 11200 Thousand Bytes/Sec
Premiere 4.2 22200 Thousand Bytes/Sec
Sound Forge 4.0 34600 Thousand Bytes/Sec
Visual C++ 5.0 6700 Thousand Bytes/Sec Maxtor
D740X-6L: Maxtor 40gig ATA 133 7200rpm Business Disk WinMark 99
9530 [2,3] Thousand Bytes/Sec
High-End Disk WinMark 99 20300 [2,3]
Thousand Bytes/Sec
TEST SCORE UNITS
Disk Playback/Bus [1,2,3]
Overall 9530 Thousand Bytes/Sec
Disk Playback/HE [1,2,3]
Overall 20300 Thousand Bytes/Sec
AVS/Express 3.4 18100 Thousand Bytes/Sec
FrontPage 98 28400 Thousand Bytes/Sec
MicroStation SE 24900 Thousand Bytes/Sec
Photoshop 4.0 12600 Thousand Bytes/Sec
Premiere 4.2 26500 Thousand Bytes/Sec
Sound Forge 4.0 35200 Thousand Bytes/Sec
Visual C++ 5.0 14600 Thousand Bytes/Sec SisoftSandra
2002 The Maxtor gave a result of 27145 and the
Seagate returned a result of 24207 . CONCLUSION: Well
there certainly is a improved performance level when moving to
ATA133 , and the results would most likely be more dramatic in RAID
. Personally Im very happy with the results , and my purchase , the
other thing is the lack of noise from the Maxtor Drive , its so
quiet that at first I wasnt sure it was still working , only time
will tell if it remains so quiet , as with many things , the older
they get , the more noise they make , but as tested , I have nothing
negative to say about the Maxtor , Its fast , its quiet , and its
available NOW, so if your looking for a new HDD give the new Maxtor
D740X-6L range a good look . |