Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB SATA Hard Disk
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB SATA Hard Drive
Date: September 2003
Site: Maxtor
Price: £150 at time of writing
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As already mentioned more and more vendors will be moving over to more SATA interfaces and phasing out the older PATA formats. Like most new standards a group of companies combined forces to produce the new format some of these were Intel, Maxtor, and Seagate.
If you are into video or music editing then you will appreciate the need for large amounts of space.
This drive features a massive storage capacity of 200GB, it also comes with Fluid Dynamic Bearing Motors. The RPM speed of this unit is 7200 and the drive also comes with 8Mb of cache. 8MB of cache aids in reducing the time it takes for data to be read from or written back to the hard disk.
The Unit:
As already mentioned this is a SATA drive so it needs a chip to process the SATA side of things, on this unit it is handled by a Marvell chip, Marvell are well known for producing chips which are in many RAID and similar devices.
