Roundup: IDE Hard Disk Drives with 8MB Cache-Buffer

***Zardon*** · Jan 31, 2003, 11:51 AM

There are four hard disk drives from three manufacturers in our today's review. They are WD1800JB and WD2000JB from Western Digital, Deskstar 180GXP (IC35L180AVV207-1) from IBM and DiamondMax Plus 9 (6Y160P0) from Maxtor. They are all equipped with an 8MB cache-buffer and have similar storage capacities. We didn't include Seagate Barracuda V SATA HDD here, as it features a new (and unexplored yet) SerialATA interface. We will dedicate a special review to this drive, so be patient.

Full roundup at XBIT

ToshiroOC · Jan 31, 2003, 01:37 PM

That was most interesting - Maxtor seems to have the crown and the capability to keep it... and WD for once was at the bottom with the JD series... Methinks my next drive is going to be one of the slightly older Maxtor fluid bearing drives...