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Maxtor or WD?

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miasman1

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I'm loyal to Maxtor, but i am specing a system for my neighbor, does Maxtor make a SATA drive comparable to the WD Raptor?
 
not yet that i know of, i'd give him WD just from my experience with maxtors, but as with any drive there is always someone with issues with both. Get him the one that has the best warranty as he will be coming to you if something goes wrong.
 
There is no drive on the market today comparable to the Raptor except of course the always expensive SCSI setup.
 
No, Maxtor does not have a SATA drive that approaches the Raptor (and they only have 7200 RPM SATA drives too).

I don't see a contender in the general consumer category until Seagate drives with NCQ come out (or you go for a SCSI like killerD says).
 
Check the latest edition of Maximum PC magazine (september). They review a new Maxtor drive. It is a 7200rpm drive with 16mb of cache. Nearly as fast as a raptor.
 
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