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Maxtor D540X 80 gigabyte
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| Mon Oct 01, 2001 | 2:10A| PermaLink |
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Today, I'm reviewing two of the latest hard drives from Maxtor, the D540X 80-gigabyte drive and 536DX 100-gigabyte drive. With Maxtor announcing its new 160GB drive, prices for drives in the range of 80 to 100 gigabytes will drop in price, making drives in this range an excellent choice for those are are in need of more space but don't necessarily need 160 gigabytes of it. Read on to see how these two particular drives stack up.
The 536DX and D540X are both 5400RPM drives. Because of that, they seem to be aimed more at the consumer market than at the workstation market, where storage speed is much more of a factor. For the average PC user, 5400 RPM drives are fine, with most of these drives used for storage of MP3s, and things of that nature. Those who need this sort of capacity for things such as video editing and other disk-intensive tasks are going to want higher speed drives.
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FULL STORY @
NEWSFORGE
(http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/27/1644230&mode=thread)
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