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| Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160GB HDD |
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| Written by Mikhail Ivanenkov | |
| Saturday, 16 June 2007 | |
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Only 5 years ago, no one needed more than 30GB of storage. Since then, much has changed. With the rapid growth of the DVD market over the past half decade, hard drive-based backups are on the rise. Operating systems now take up gigabytes of space and games are shipping on DVDs because of their giant installation files. All of this impacts both average consumers and computer enthusiasts, forcing them to delete "unnecessary" files or more likely, upgrade to a larger hard drive. With 400GB models now hitting mainstream, the cost per GB (in larger drives) ranges from $0.50 to $1 (or even less if you scope out a deal).
I did this by setting the drive as the primary boot device in my system BIOS and then using the Windows XP CD to boot from and format the drive (as well as install OS files which I later deleted). After that it shows up in Explorer just fine. A simpler approach (which eluded me at the time) was to format it through Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management. The same thing can be accomplished with the included software, but I tried the more common alternative methods for those who purchase the drive OEM, sans the software. The warranty on the drive is only 1 year, which is unfortunate when compared to other companies' longer warranties (Seagate offers 5 years on all drives and Western Digital 3 years on all newer drives - i.e. Special Edition and newer).
All DiamondMax Plus 9 series drives include Fluid Dynamic Bearing motors (for reduced noise) and Maxtor Data/Shock Protection Systems. Keep in mind this isn't the latest and greatest from Maxtor; the new DiamondMax 10 series has drives ranging from 80-300GB with lower 9ms seek times and 8-16MB buffers depending on drive capacity. As for platter density, it remains a mystery. Maxtor purposely doesn't list how many platters are used in their drives or what the densities are because identical capacity drives sometimes have varying amounts of these. |
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| Last Updated ( Saturday, 16 June 2007 ) |
