King Of Capacity: DiamondMax 80

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Test Setup

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Test System
CPU	Intel Celeron, 500 MHz
Motherboard	Asus CUSL2, i815 chipset
RAM	128 MB SDRAM, 7ns (Crucial/Micron or Wichmann Workx ) CL2
IDE Controller	i815 UltraDMA/100 Controller (ICH2)
Graphics Card	i815 On-Board Graphics
Network	3COM 905TX PCI 100 MBit
Operating Systems	Windows 98 SE 4.10.2222 AWindows 2000 Pro 5.00.2195 SP1
Benchmarks and Measuring
Office Applications Benchmark	ZD WinBench 99 - Business Disk Winmark 1.2
Highend Applications Benchmark	ZD WinBench 99 - Highend Disk Winmark 1.2
Additional Content Creation Benchmark	ZD Content Creation Winstone 2000
Performance Tests	ZD WinBench 99 - Disc Inspection Test
Temperature Measurements	Using 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 Measurement	We built our own noise measurement crate to avoid influences from other noise sources.
Environment Settings
Graphics Driver	Intel i815 Reference Driver 4.2
IDE Driver	Intel Busmaster DMA Drivers 6.0
DirectX Version	7.0a
Screen Resolution	1024x768, 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.

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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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