King Of Capacity: DiamondMax 80

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Benchmarks: Disk Access Time

In Windows 2000, the DiamondMax 80's access time is excellent. Under Windows 98, all 7.200 rpm drives are faster. However, the 80 GB drive is still faster than the Western Digital 45 GB drive .

Many people believe that drives with huge capacities have to have longer access times. Actually, the access time practically does harly differ within a drive family. For example, those DiamondMax drives are available with 2, 3 or 4 platters, resulting in capacities of 40, 60 or 80 GB. Adding another platter does not increase the search distances, since every platter has its own heads.

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.

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