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Advantages: Mega Storage, Quiet, Fast Disadvantages: Heats up quickly needing extra cooling, Price
...My computer will never be the same again! After installing it I could already notice a major difference. I upgraded from a 250gb WesternDigital to the 750gb Seagate Barracuda.
Product Specification:
Type: - Internal Harddrive
Form Factor: 3.5" x 1/3H
Dimensions (WxDxH): 10.2 cm x 14.7 cm x 2.6 cm
Weight: 0.7 kg
Capacity: 750GB
Interface Type: ATA-100
Connector: 40 PIN IDC
Data Transfer Rate: 100 MBps
Spindle Speed: 7200 rpm
Buffer Size: 16 MB
PROS/CONS:
Although most people wont need a hardrive this size to do the basics of any office applications or internet use. This harddrive is for the people who run network drives and do alot of video editing and the like.
Just make sure you remove the jumper before you use it as this limits it to standard SATA speed and is fitted by default. The storage capacity...
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Advantages: Fast and Silent, Easy SATA installation, Two flavours to choose from Disadvantages: Dismal performance
...Maxtor are one of the 3 leading harddrive manufacturers in the personal and business computing market at the moment along with Western Digital and Hitachi. They are also the cheapest. Unfortunately, the saying that price doesn't equals quality is true here. Too true.
The 160GB version of the DiamondMax Plus9 can be purchased online from around £51.00 onwards. And with the way harddrive prices have fallen recently, that's not bad at all. But as I said, you're getting cheap quality to match the cheap price.
The drive itself looks very similar to any other harddrive, and comes in both IDE ATA/133 and SATA 150 flavours, with the SATA ones easier to configure due to their jumperless installations.
My personal experience with this drive has been short. I first purchased this drive to use in my first ever custom-built computer...
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Advantages: Fast, high capacity storage. Well built, looks good. 2 year warranty, No fan. Disadvantages: No fan.
...Freecom before as they've always looked a bit cheap and nasty so this would be an interesting experience. The box did feel reassuringly heavy though, a good start.
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Apart from the drive, the box contained a small light external PSU, a USB lead and a CD with some backup software.
The case is made of extremly solid and heavy aluminium with a silver plastic front piece with a sexy blue '400GB' light (yes, you can have sexy lights. Really.) at the front just to prove how big it was. The finish is excellent and I have to say, if this is anything to go by, I'm converted to Freecom. Unlike the picture here, my unit has the aluminium finished in matt black which looks really nice on top of my black PC. It's also surprisingly compact - not that much bigger than a harddrive at 20x11.5x4 cms...
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Maxtor is a big Hard Drive manufacturer and I have used them before even buying drives to put into two of my own PCs and both times the drives have worked fine, knowing this I thought they would make good external drives...
Unboxing:
In the box you... more
This hard drive is very similar in look and feel to the other Passport versions that Western Digital I found this hard drive that i liked that offered my requirements in a nice handy little black box.
Design
Its presented in a big box, and I was... more
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