There are now more Serial ATA drives in the market today, with Seagate leading the way with their Barracuda series and Western Digital entering the enterprise segment with the Rapto
Quote from the review:
“Overall, if you intend to use the DiamondMax Plus 9 as a desktop storage drive, it should not disappoint. Since the drive is mainly targeted at desktops and workstations, the DiamondMax Plus 9 should have no problems delivering the performance that’s needed to satisfy most applications. “
Our take: Personally I think there is something fishy going on with this review. In our own test labs, the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160GB SATA scored great and the speed was consistent in all of our tests. Upon further research there are a number of sites such as Envy News and OC Addiction which gave this drive top marks. Envy News does a great job of comparing this drive to other SATA hard drives. Perhaps HWZone knows something we don’t.
