Ready for CeBIT: Fujitsu, Maxtor and Quantum's latest High-Performance IDE Drives

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Both the Fujitsu and the Maxtor drive are able to beat the IBM DeskStar. The Fireball Plus AS from Quantum is pretty close behind it. If you want to use the drive for video applications or other streaming stuff, you should pay high attention to constant transfer rates. The Fujitsu loses less transfer speed than the others when reaching the end of the medium.

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.