The Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 80 featured the largest capacity of any of the drives in our comparison. A whole 81GB was sectored over four platters.
The drive's 2MB buffer size was pretty standard for an IDE drive (the SCSI drive was the only one to have a larger buffer size). In WinBench Business Disk the DiamondMax Plus 80 did quite well to score a little past 9000 and in the WinBench High End Disk test the DiamondMax 80 scored right on 20,000.
Overall, the DiamondMax Plus 80 is a good performer. Keep in mind that this is only a 5400RPM drive. And because of this, its access times were slightly higher than the faster spinning drives--we recorded a score of 21.6. In the transfer tests, the DiamondMax Plus 80 (along with the Maxtor VL 40) generated a good smooth graph which indicates smooth operation.
Cost per gigabyte was very good at only $7.39. This made it only 56 cents more than the Samsung, which offered the best price per GB.
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Price:AU$599
Distributor:BBF Components and Peripherals
Phone:1800 803 802
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