----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Glazier" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Western Digital or Maxtor?


> I can't quote the facts as well as I'd like, but Maxtor
> does have some high performance drives. (More below.)
> Some of these are re-badged Quantum drives (Japan models)
> from when they got the designs when they took over that company.
>
> In any event, Maxtor has Performance and/or Multimedia
> line(s) of drives.
>
> An example of an older one would be: Model number:   6L080J4
> D740X Ultra DMA133 7200 RPM - Performance Family
>
> This may not be their best one. (I own a 20G I got directly from them.)
>
> Hope this is better than ones you have seen.
> (Otherwise we are just spinning our wheels.)

The one you listed wasn't really mean any performance today. Model end with
Jx is their mainstream line, end with Lx is bit more expensive, but in my
experience, not faster. From what I understand, Lx line was meant to be
performance, however, I can't comfirm it neither in our own benchmark test
or else hardware site, so I'm pretty sure I'm not mistaking at this point.

Jun Qian

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