What are your thoughts on this drive?
To be honest, I was expecting more from this drive after reading mostly good things about it. I am a little dissapointed with it. It is in fact pretty noisy, even compared to my older Maxtor D740X 60GB. It is hot, as in pretty damn hot. There are niggling issues like MP3s skipping or clicking slightly sometimes, although not too noticeable, when the HD is being accessed hard. And also, the copying issue where it stops every second and the PC slows down to a grinding halt when moving files onto the drive. The last two may well be driver issues but after spending the extra to get the SATA version, I was expecting hassle-free good performance. I am now wishing I chose to stick with PATA IDE right now.
This is with a NF7-S and the latest Si 10032 drivers.
Why can't it just be nice like I was expecting it to![]()


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That was what Seagate did but Maxtor enhanced their HD making the SATA version superior to the equivilent ATA133 HD, certainly from the reviews I've read. SATA's 150MB/s is obviously pointless but it does have other merits most notably low CPU usage.
Rem SATA is new technology and as such it will be prone to more problems and drawbacks, that along with price is what you should expect whether it's the latest HD, CPU, mobo or gfx card.
At the mo I'd have to say drivers are the biggest issue, it seems nF2's IDE implimentation leaves something to be desired ... I think nVidia care more about inflating the lowly GF-FX scores with drivers than sorting the nF2 which are considered the top SktA chipset regardless of any failings.

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