Conclusion
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To the left we have the older Maxtor 80GB drive and to the right we have the new Maxtor drive. By these tests in Passmark we can see that there are mixed results where on drive is faster than the other. There are not that many differences in these drives more than the buffer size.
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Passmark disk speed test shows exact same numbers on these two harddrives but I want to see what HDspeed shows before I will rule the faster drive. I like this new Passmark testing software as it shows alot of information and to the right we have the advanced HDD test and it shows that there are some different read/write speeds on these two drives. The top one is the older drive and the bottom one is the new Maxtor.
Sisoft Sandra 2005 SP3:
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I added a Raptor disk to the test when it came to Sandra and HDspeed to show the difference. The Raptor is a 10k RPM drive vs these normal drives that are 7200 RPM. There is a difference between it and the IDE drives, but we are focusing on the IDE drives and according to Sisoft Sandra they have the same MB/s transfer speeds.
HDspeed:
After running HDspeed for awhile we got the following results. We can see that the SATa drive is faster but all previous testing has shown that the old and new Maxtor drives are pretty much the same speeds but this one shows that the new drive is faster.
This is due to the bigger 16MB buffer, by having a bigger buffer the harddrive works more with its own buffer than the computer and by this way it speeds the transfers up. With a big buffer the harddrive doesn’t access the memory and the computer that much as it moves the most used data onto its own buffer.
Conclusion:
This is a sweet drive I have to say but something I found this to do is get hot really fast, I had both Maxtor drives beside each other and this new drive got hot within 5 minutes and the older one never even got as hot. Otherwise its performance wise really fast as the last test showed, and noise wise it’s the quietest drive I have ever had. You can transfer to and from it and it still will not make make any noise barely, I had to put my ear to the drive to be able to hear it well even during testing. There is not much to say about this, look for a 16MB buffer drive if you are in the market for an IDE drive as this is a really fast one and quiet. This is why we give it 5 out of 5.
Pros:
+ Quiet
+ Fast
+ 16MB buffer
+ Maxtor quality
Cons:
- Gets hot
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