The DiamondMax Plus D740X turns in an amazing 12.2 millisecond
WinBench 99-measured
access time. Subtracting 4.2 ms to account for the average
rotational latency of a 7200 RPM drive yields a measured
seek time of just 8.0 milliseconds... a figure that beats Maxtor's claim by 0.5 ms. Very nice! Its score very narrowly bests that of
IBM's Deskstar 60GXP to claim the lowest access time among contemporary ATA drives.
Transfer rates, though decent, aren't groundbreaking. The D740X's outer-zone score of 41.7 MB/sec propels Maxtor into the 40+ club, but the figure lags slightly behind drives from Seagate and Western Digital. The DiamondMax's inner-zone rate of 25.4 MB/sec is also a bit lower than the competition.
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