fastest monster hard drive

[kailimisc]

I'm looking for some monster hard drive (>100GB). I notice Maxtor makes 120GB with 5200RPM, UDMA/100, and Western Digital makes 120GB, with 7200RPM, UDMA/133. So I'm wondering between RPM and UDMA parameters, which one is more important for speed with respect to stability?

Thanks a lot!

 

[chickendinner]

the WD1200JB special edition is the fastest it has an 8mb cache! its 120 GB and it beat a scsi 36gb seagate 15K rpm (in maximum pc march issue) in desktop usage!

 

[rondeemc]

bump for the WD special addition. Just picked one up for around $215 at the gateway accessory store. They had a $50 off $200 coupon and free shipping.

 

[Dundain]

Yea, the Western Digital 120GB JB model will destroy the Maxtor bar none. It can compete fairly well with most SCSI drives but cant beat the big timers in that realm Hell, even the WD 100GB JB model would destroy the Maxtor 120Gb...a 5400rpm drive just cant compete with a drive thats spinning 2300rpm faster and has a cache thats roughly 15x larger. (The Maxtor is a 512kb buffer right?)

 

[InsaneMorphius]

Definetly,

Western Digital 120GB JB hands down winner unless big time SCSI

 

[asiagian]

I believe RPM is more important as it is a constant speed, rather UDMA which is burst/max speed (which very rare).