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What's the FASTEST IDE Hard Drive that's around 20-30GB out there in the market? What's the difference between UDMA/100 and UATA/100 or are they the same thing? I was looking at the Quantum Fireball series, what's the fastest in the IDE series, the Fireball AS or the lc10 & 20 or one of the other hard drives? What should I go with, a Maxtor/Quantum, IBM, WD, Seagate, or etc.

dual 75GB Maxtor with RAID 0 array.

Maxtor hard drives are BULLSH!T. The IBM GXP75 is the BEST IDE drive out there right now, period. Take a look around, theres a shortage of this model of drive EVERYWHERE. Can't wait til the GXP60 becomes widly a avaliable.

I expected the Quantum AS to be FASTTTTT, but instead its about the same speed as the LM or in some cases slower. The reason is that before, with the KX and LM, they used high quality SCSI parts, but with an IDE controller, thats why the KX and LM always had below advertised seek times. With the AS they stopped using the high quality parts (probably cuz Maxtor took over the company and is cutting costs on everything).

I HATE MAXTOR, they f.ucked up Quantum, the only real competition against IBM.

Originally posted by TigerUpperCut:
Maxtor hard drives are BULLSH!T. The IBM GXP75 is the BEST IDE drive out there right now, period. Take a look around, theres a shortage of this model of drive EVERYWHERE. Can't wait til the GXP60 becomes widly a avaliable.

I expected the Quantum AS to be FASTTTTT, but instead its about the same speed as the LM or in some cases slower. The reason is that before, with the KX and LM, they used high quality SCSI parts, but with an IDE controller, thats why the KX and LM always had below advertised seek times. With the AS they stopped using the high quality parts (probably cuz Maxtor took over the company and is cutting costs on everything).

I HATE MAXTOR, they f.ucked up Quantum, the only real competition against IBM.

i love my maxtor 20 gig 7200rpm ata 100 drive especialy with my promise ata 100 card

the fastest single IDE hard drive would be one with 8 or 9ms at 7200rpm and ATA/100 which is the same as UDMA/100 or UDMA Mode 5

The absolute fastest would be 2 of those drives in a RAID 0 config

I believe the fastest and best ones are of the IBM 75GXP series

I like my IBM 30GB 75GXP.
Never liked Maxtor.
Quantum ain't bad.

i MEANT the IBM 75GB GXP i read about it and it was the best hands down, i got the names confused sorry, DUAL 75GXP IBM RAID 0

Doh, I had the same problem with geocities. I got an account with homestead and everything seems to be ok, except for the fact that I can't seem to connect to their ftp server to access my account.

-el bob

Originally posted by el bob:
Doh, I had the same problem with geocities.

External links are no longer permited.

Originally posted by glc1:
I like my IBM 30GB 75GXP.
Never liked Maxtor.
Quantum ain't bad.

I have 3 failed IBM drives... In one year.

I am running 2 45Meg ata100 7200rpm Maxtors in RAID -0
Wicked fast.

Ya the problem with IBM drives is that they tend to burn out fairly easily. My cousin had a few friends who had their IBM drive burn out within 6 months.

If the Quantum AS had continued to use high quality SCSI parts, it would be the King of the hill.

Well here's my HD tach score of my single IGM GXP75 30GB drive (on a Promise ATA100 controller)

don't click me

bah, geocities is acting up on me
Read speed:
Max: 38.2MB/s
Min: 14.8MB/s
avg: 29.2MB/s
RAT: 13ms
RBS: 80+MB/s

I hate geocities..not letting me host pics!!

[ 03-30-2001: Message edited by: ssjDoh ]

Originally posted by TigerUpperCut:
Ya the problem with IBM drives is that they tend to burn out fairly easily. My cousin had a few friends who had their IBM drive burn out within 6 months.

If the Quantum AS had continued to use high quality SCSI parts, it would be the King of the hill.

Agreed.

Yeah, there's certain IBM models that have had problems.