HDD question; Maxtor Diamondmax 9/10

[Unfocused]

http://www.maxtor.com/_files/maxtor/en_us/documentation/data_sheets/product_line_card.pdf

Can anyone tell me what's the difference between the Maxtor 6Y160P0 and the Maxtor 6L160P0 HDD? They have the same specs, but the former is from the DiamondMax 9 Plus family, while the latter is DiamondMax 10.

Which one is better? The DiamondMax 9/DiamondMax 10 description is just some advertising babble so it's hard to tell.

 

[giant384]

just .3 faster seek times thats it

 

[Unfocused]

just .3 faster seek times thats it

Hm, the DM10 one is slightly cheaper. And is it only that? About the DM9 it says its for performance computing, while about DM10 it's only that it has lotsa space etc. I know it's all advertising but I'm still wndering.

 

[D€vIL²]

I suggest not getting a Maxtor. The one I got Died and a friend had one die, and Ive see a number of other people online whos died....

 

[Unfocused]

My 40GB Maxtor is fine.

I'm thinking of buying either a Maxtor or a Samsung, both 160GB, ATA/133, 8MB cache. It seems the Samsung is more silent.

 

[giant384]

i prefer seagate over any of those

 

[Cole]

I have a 80gig Maxtor and it's fine, but more "high end" maxtor hard drives are known to die out faster and be noisier and cause lots of heat rather easily.

My Seagate Barricuda, 250gigs run super silent and hasn't raised my comps temp up to much at all. For $106 including Shipping and Handling it's overall nice. Now it runs my Windows and my old Maxtor(that came with my emachines) runs my Linux.

 

[Unfocused]

Actually I had Seagate and it died. Bad luck I guess. I thought about Maxtor and Samsung cause they're the only ones I saw with ATA/133, the rest is ATA/100. And my mobo does not support SATA so I won't consider any of those.

 

[Asus]

DiamondMax 10 with Serial ATA has native command queuing.

DiamondMax 10 review
I go Western Digital, Seagate, Hitachi and Samsung and in that order of preference. =p
Mostly for performance and reliability. Samsungs are quite though.
I personally don't care for maxtor because of reliability and only a 1yr warranty.

 

[Unfocused]

DiamondMax 10 with Serial ATA have native command queuing.

And DM10 with ATA? And what does that exactly mean?

 

[xLostx]

seagate ftw.

 

[sinkoman]

Just like everybody says...

Sticking to Western Digital and Seagate would be a better idea. I've only heard bad things about Maxtor HDDs, "mine died within a year" "It's loud as a mother" "it smells like turkey".

I've had two Western Digital HDD's for my entire life. I've owned two PC's for maybe 6-10 years, one a shitty HP, the other the PC in my sig, and for both, I used the same Western Digital HDD from the original HP pc. It died this year, but considering it lasted for nearly 7 years, I think it was a VERY good hdd.

Maxtor HDD's are the ones that bloody nosed geeks that shop for parts at costco reccomend to me. And no, i'm not kidding, I know people like that

 

[Revisedsoul]

seagate bought maxtor

 

[sinkoman]

seagate bought maxtor

There you go.

 

[Unfocused]

So you recommend Seagate ATA/100 over Samsung ATA/133 (apart from that specs are similar)?

 

[Asus]

To me, reliability > than all. If you don't want a Seagate ATA/100 drive then go for a Western Digital. Most drives average transfer rate is 60-70mb/s anyway.
ATA/100,133 and SATA 150 is just the connection and doesn't imply faster actual speeds.

 

[Unfocused]

I went with the Seagate. It's actually a christmas present so I just checked out if it's working without making partitions etc. (hardware manager - it says over 152000MB so I guess it's ok). I have to connect it instead of one of my DVD drives however (at least for now) as it seems the slave connector is not working (I tried to connect both drives with the slave and BIOS simply doesn't recognise the drives then). I guess I'll have to buy a new cable.