King Of Capacity: DiamondMax 80

Features
By Patrick Schmid
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Test Setup

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Test System
CPUIntel Celeron, 500 MHz
MotherboardAsus CUSL2, i815 chipset
RAM128 MB SDRAM, 7ns (Crucial/Micron or Wichmann Workx ) CL2
IDE Controlleri815 UltraDMA/100 Controller (ICH2)
Graphics Cardi815 On-Board Graphics
Network3COM 905TX PCI 100 MBit
Operating SystemsWindows 98 SE 4.10.2222 AWindows 2000 Pro 5.00.2195 SP1
Benchmarks and Measuring
Office Applications BenchmarkZD WinBench 99 - Business Disk Winmark 1.2
Highend Applications BenchmarkZD WinBench 99 - Highend Disk Winmark 1.2
Additional Content Creation BenchmarkZD Content Creation Winstone 2000
Performance TestsZD WinBench 99 - Disc Inspection Test
Temperature MeasurementsUsing the motherboard's monitoring port and a thermistor, we give you the highest temperature value measured on the drive's surface. All drives ran two hours to ensure they were at working temperature.
Noise MeasurementWe built our own noise measurement crate to avoid influences from other noise sources.
Environment Settings
Graphics DriverIntel i815 Reference Driver 4.2
IDE DriverIntel Busmaster DMA Drivers 6.0
DirectX Version7.0a
Screen Resolution1024x768, 16 Bit, 85 Hz Refresh

Most of you should already be familiar with the test setup. I changed the formerly used 810 chipset motherboard to this 815 one in order to have an UltraATA/100 controller on-board.

Patrick Schmid
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  • taylorparker
    My husband and I moved out of our home last year, and into a small apartment. My husband was promoted and relocated and we are currently in the process of building our new home. Until it is finished, we have been living in our apartment. Because our apartment is smaller than what our home was, a lot of our belongings weren't able to fit and we had to put some in heated storage . At first I was really hesitant to do so, but so far, we have had no problems with it whatsoever!
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