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Maxtor's Sata hard drive.
Just like Hitachi, Maxtor uses a bridged solution inside the 200GB Diamond Max Plus 9, so it can offer the drive in both ATA and Sata150 forms. Again, the Sata version has both serial and legacy power connectors.
The Max Plus 9 series ranges in capacity from 60GB to 200GB, using a relatively low 63GB per platter density, which hurts seek time a little.
No doubt Maxtor hopes the ATA133 interface and 8MB cache will help it a little in burst tests. It certainly performed rather better in our tests than we would have predicted.
The real sticking point, again, is the price. Maxtor quotes £189.90. A cheaper price would have made a massive difference.
Overall:
The Maxtor drive did better than we expected but is still too expensive.
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