Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB SATA Hard Drive Review

The performance of the Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB drive was impressive in both the benchmarks and real world testing. It managed to put up the best numbers of all the drives on hand in pretty much every test conducted. Even though one reference drive was capable of SATA-300 speeds, all tests were conducted on a SATA-150 interface for the sake of parity.

Comparing apples to apples, the SATA-150 performance of the Maxtor drive was the best. The combination of a SATA-150 interface and NCQ support makes this drive a strong performer for today, as well as into the foreseeable future. SATA-300 is now available, and offers double the theoretical transfer rate, but the applications are still rather uncommon.

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