Maxtor's 300 GB Monster Reviewed

bustersnyvel writes "Tom's Hardware Guide has a nice article about Maxtor's new 300 GB DiamondMax harddisk. " The question is - will the drive perform despite having only 2mb of cache, and running at 5400 rpm?

Holy Crap

[crass751]

300GB is a lot of pr0n

Running at 5400rpm

[Nom du Keyboard]

Yes it only runs at 5400rpm...

...but as a timesaver, it comes with its own RIAA and MPAA subpoenas attached.

Re:I'm waiting for the...

[lakeland]

I've been watching HDD sizes for a while, and they seem to be narrowly beating Moore's law (15-16 months instead of 18.) So if we say we have 300GB today, with 100GB commonplace then I would say we will hit 1TB in about 27 months, with regular drives taking just over fourty months.

Re:who cares if it performs

[Amiga Lover]

Looking at the article:

They all pale, however, compared to Maxtor's monster, which has a full 300 GB of write space. If you're one of those people for whom "big" isn't big enough, this is the one for you.

300GB of write space... not read/write space. This drive is nothing but a subset of /dev/null with an ATA interface!

Re:It's too big to be useful

[Gil-galad55]

You know, I get that all the time.

And I said this 10 years ago with my 500MB HD

[fejikso]

At last! I will never run out of space with this HD :)