War between the 3GB/s: Maxtor Diamond Max vs Seagate Barracuda

[ADE]

They are both good. They're both 3GB/s. They're both SATA but which one really is better than the other? The Maxtor Diamond Max 10, or the Seagate Barracuda?

 

[Bobo]

They are both fine.

 

[fade2green514]

personally, i like the seagate barracuda. ive owned two before, and i consider them to be higher performing hard drives, whereas maxtor is a cooler running hard drive.

what seagate barracuda model? they come in 7200.8 7200.9 and so on

http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage.html?modelx=33&model1=366&model2=130&chart=33
i chose the 7200.10 which is the latest i believe, but the 7200.9 has its strengths too.

 

[ADE]

I think those charts are wrong. I did many benchmark tests and I got a solid 3 GB/s. not no 63 MB. And I also did real world tests and proved it accurate, some what. I deleted a 5.6 GB file in 1 second. no lie. I could overclock the HDD, but killed my last IDE (i have SATA now) by doing that. went from 10 to 1000 but it died in maybe 70 days. Performance was AMAZING but now I don't know about doing that.....

edit: also not just transfer speeds, also seek time. How about full disk seek.

 

[b3atofang3l]

They are both made from Thailand, both same specs, both the same. Its all about preference.

 

[kof2000]

do they have perpendicular recording i remember seeing some segates on newegg that has this feature.

 

[bball4life]

personally, i like the seagate barracuda. ive owned two before, and i consider them to be higher performing hard drives, whereas maxtor is a cooler running hard drive.

What?

Maxtors run hotter than most hard drives, both are fine, in fact I have both a seagate and maxtor sata hard drive. The maxtor in my main rig runs about 35C while the seagate tends to be about 30C this is with a 120mm fan blowing over the tops of them. I prefer seagate, rock solid company with awesome products. But either way you will be happy with the drive.

 

[SirKenin]

Seagate and Maxtor are the same company now, so really it should pretty much be six of one, half a dozen of the other.

 

[b3atofang3l]

oo. neva knew that, no wonder they are all made from thailand now..xD

 

[bball4life]

Seagate and Maxtor are the same company now, so really it should pretty much be six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Ya good point

Doesn't completely mean the quality is identical between the two though.

 

[jp198780]

my votes Maxtor..

 

[Ku-sama]

what about WD?

 

[Geoff]

Go with the Seagate if it's one of their new perpendicular recording models.

 

[Ku-sama]

what is that anyways?

(here comes the wiki link)

 

[Geoff]

what is that anyways?

(here comes the wiki link)

It's when they stack the data vertically instead of horizontally, allowing for more data per platter. It also increases performance slightly.

 

[ADE]

but how well can you overclock a Seagate and a Maxtor?

 

[Geoff]

but how well can you overclock a Seagate and a Maxtor?

You're joking right?

 

[b3atofang3l]

lol, funniest post i have ever seen. Halloween disease.

 

[ETSA]

I like WD, but they are HD's...really...brand loyalty for a HD. I don't get it.

 

[SirKenin]

I overclocked my 7200 RPM Maxtor to 10,000 RPM and saw with my own two ears an obvious increase in performance. I noticed that it was smooth and my games ran faster. I have no benchmarks to substantiate my ridiculous claims, of course, so you'll just have to take my word for it.. hahaha.

No, seriously. How do you overclock a harddrive? The only think I can think of is that you can overclock the PCI bus, thus overdriving the interface (for lack of a better term for it). I'm not sure you'd want to do that though.. That would be a pretty good way of burning out your drive, no?