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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No problems occurred and within a short time I had a blank installation, of course you need to remeber the bits/bytes so that you wont think you should get 200gb of usuable space. On this installation I ended up with 187GB.
If you have experienced the problems when trying to connect a normal drive into the connector on wither the board or the drive then you don't need to worry.
The cables are so much thinner and the reduced size of the connector head allows for quick connection rather than having to ensure the cable is the right way round and ensuring that the pins were not being bent or stressed. They also have a small groove which ensures that it can only be connected one way round.
Once all connected it was time to power up. The drive runs very quiet and once I had replaced the case side window the noise was barely auditable. Maxtor are one of the leading hard drive vendors and in this rang of drives have included Fluid Bearing motor technology which allows for smother and quieter operation.
