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Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200GB 7200RPM SATA hard drive

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005 | Hard Drives, Reviews

The increase in speed over old style IDE drives is astonishing. The extra speed given by the SATA interface as well as the performance increase with 7200RPM disk rotation makes everything on the computer run that much faster. Just what I like.

I got a pair of these hard drives a few weeks ago and am very pleased with them. Functionally they work great, giving no hassles so far. I actually have 2 of the predecessors to this drive, the DiamondMax 9.

I installed 2 of these drives on my new ASUS motherboard which I got while attempting to diagnose problems with my computer. Along with the motherboard came the ability to run 2 SATA hard drives in a RAID configuration.

With 2 drives setup in RAID 1, which mirrors the contents of one drive on the other, I am fairly sure that I can avoid the devastating loss of data which occured with my last hard drive crash.

The drives themselves are very quiet, they don’t make too much sound while operating except for the occassional low level grinding sound. One other strange noise made by the disks is when the power is turned on or off. I can’t explain the noise but it sounds like a quick burst of that slight grinding sound.

Reviews and reports on these drives are good. They were my second choice over a Western Digital drive, but I am more than happy.

Advantages of this drive include

• Fast rotation, common nowadays
• SATA for fast speeds
• Those great, thin SATA cables
• Ability to use the traditional power plug, instead of SATA power
• Quiet operation

In conclusion, I have had no regrets with this drive, and I don’t expect to need to upgrade any time soon.

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