Barracuda 7200.8 or DiamondMax 10?

Sarunas

I need a new hard drive, and really not sure which one to buy, both are few yoyos away from each other, and perfomance is similar too.

Links:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250 GB

From searching the forums, lots of people had problems with Maxtor, and they seem to be loud... But it is ata 133 with 16mb cache compared to ata 100 with 8mb cache...

Which one is more quieter and reliable? Barracuda? They seem to be similar.

What would you guys say? I want to buy today so I could get it by next week.

Thanks,

-oRnein9-

Go for the maxtor the 16mb cache really helps they preform similar to a 10,000rpm WD Raptor but provide 250gb rather than the raptors 74gb. I ordered a maxtor three days ago.

deckie27

If you want a reliable drive go for the seagate

Optikus

I'd recommend the Maxtor over the Seagate.

SwampThing

Buy the 250GB SATA Maxtor - it comes with a SATA controller , so no worries about not having controllers on-board and you get 150Mb/s DTR with that.

I've two of those Maxtor's and they're not noisy, great performance in RAID0. I've a 120GB Seagate and it's fine as well.

Esel

SwampThing wrote:

Buy the 250GB SATA Maxtor - it comes with a SATA controller , so no worries about not having controllers on-board and you get 150Mb/s DTR with that.

I've two of those Maxtor's and they're not noisy, great performance in RAID0. I've a 120GB Seagate and it's fine as well.

Would the Maxtor work OK in an older PC - AMD 850MHz? I thought I would have to stick with an IDE drive?

Sarunas

I just ordered Seagate after reading most of the reviews I could find.

Maxtor has better performance (its not like there will be noticable difference between the two), but Seagate is more reliable (it does come with 5 year warranty compared to 3 for maxtor) and is more quiet, and it seems those two factors are more important to me than perfomance (tho 16mb cache would be nice).

julius

I have ordered 2 HDD's from komplett in the past....a Western Digital and 300GB PATA DM10.

Both came without retail packaging or any other extra's...just the bare drive!!

If you order a DM10 SATA you will only get the drive and no SATA controller!!!

As a system/OS drive th seagate is a better choice as noise is a major factor in the choice of a frequently used drive.
I use my DM10 300GB for storage and nothing more with a seagate 7200.7 200GB as my boot drive!!!

Dempsey

julius wrote:

Both came without retail packaging or any other extra's...just the bare drive!!
If you order a DM10 SATA you will only get the drive and no SATA controller!!!

By your post you seem surprised that you didnt get extra's like a sata controller.
I'd be very surprised if ya did.

the_syco

My machine has 2 Segate hard-drives. One came with the machine (3 years ago), and the other was a recent addition. I've tried 3 Maxtor hard-drives in the meantime, and all failed.

Says what I think of Maxtor, tbh. Buy a Seagate.

po0k

Get the seagate 7200.8 Sata drive, NCQ as standard.

I'm getting 2x 400Gig models for my new rig.

Sarunas

SyxPak wrote:

Get the seagate 7200.8 Sata drive, NCQ as standard.

My motherboard doesn't support NCQ so there would be no real need to get it, plus I'm not exactly sure whats the support for sata drives in the unix land like.

astrofool

I have 2 Maxtor 16MB, 300gigs here on a raid 0, and getting between 120-130MB/s out of them. By comparison I have a 200gig WD 8meg for backup that gets 50MB/s.

SwampThing

julius wrote:

Both came without retail packaging or any other extra's...just the bare drive!!

If you order a DM10 SATA you will only get the drive and no SATA controller!!!

Are you calling me a liar?

If you look through this forum, you'll find a thread where I was talking about different drivers for it. I got two drives, in retail packaging, with a 2 SATA port / 1 ATA port controller and the MaxBlast RAID software included from Elara.

po0k

julius wrote:

I have ordered 2 HDD's from komplett in the past....a Western Digital and 300GB PATA DM10.

Both came without retail packaging or any other extra's...just the bare drive!!

You bought OEM kit.

zAbbo

Ordered some kit this week, a removeable internal sata kit, controller and oem HDD's. Ordered spare sata cables, turned out i got cables included with the removeable kit and controller. 3 sets of cable now.

Better safe than sorry, but ull only ever get the hdd with OEM hard drives

//order from ocuk