ModTown has posted a review on the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB SATA/150 harddisk

Maxtor is the industry leader in developing SATA and providing SATA drives in volume. They are also one of the founding members of the Serial ATA Working Group and has strongly supported the development and adoption of this interface. SATA interfaces are available on their DiamondMax Plus 9 and MaXLine Plus II products. Today I will be looking at the DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB SATA/150 Hard Drive.

This hard drive features a massive 200GB of storage space, Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) Motors, 7200RPM rotational speed and an 8Mb cache. It is similar in many aspects to the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB PATA which we reviewed recently - with the obvious difference being the SATA interface.

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