Maxtor Diamond VL 40
The Maxtor Diamond VL 40 is the smallest Maxtor drive we received for the test. It's a 40.9GB drive, which is still quite large by today's standards. The VL 40 performed very similarly to the huge DiamondMax Plus 80 disk drive. Its WinBench Business Disk score was a bit higher but its score in WinBench High-End Disk was lower. The access times for both the Plus 80 and VL 40 were also similar. The VL 40 stood out from the rest because it had one of the smoothest transfer rate graphs that we saw. The transfer speeds dropped slightly throughout the test (as expected) but most importantly, they remained smooth.
The VL 40 is equipped with a 2MB buffer. It has four 10GB surfaces (or two 20GB platters and four heads). Like all the other IDE drives it features an ATA/100 interface.
Its price of $299 made it one of the more affordable hard disks in this roundup, and brought down its cost per GB to only $7.31.
Company:
Price:AU$$299
Distributor:BBF Components and Peripherals
Phone:1800 803 802
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