Is Hitachi 180GXP still fastest 7200 IDE HD?

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last spring Maximum PC did a comparison and concluded that in spite of the
failures in the 75G IBMs, the IBM (now Hitachi) 180GXP 180G 7200RPM 8MB
cache was the fastest IDE drive on the market. I bought one and used it in a
desktop and it was startlingly fast.

Have since sold the desktop and am not building a Shuttle and thinking of
optimum drive for it. Interested in speed, reliability, & quiet.

Is there a standard IDE drive that has replaced the 180GXP on top of heap?

Thanks,

Silo
 
last spring Maximum PC did a comparison and concluded that in spite of the
failures in the 75G IBMs, the IBM (now Hitachi) 180GXP 180G 7200RPM 8MB
cache was the fastest IDE drive on the market. I bought one and used it in a
desktop and it was startlingly fast.

Have since sold the desktop and am not building a Shuttle and thinking of
optimum drive for it. Interested in speed, reliability, & quiet.

Is there a standard IDE drive that has replaced the 180GXP on top of heap?
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About all the IDE drives that came to the market after the 180GXP.

At the moment the Hitachi 7K250 is the fastest 7200 rpm IDE disk.
It is also quiet.

There are lots of reviews on the net, but this one from Tom also has
the 180GXP in the same graphs:
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/200311141/hd-250-07.html

And on storagereview you can select the benchmarks you are interested
in, and the disks you want to have compared.

On the other hand, it is doubtfull that you will notice the difference
in everyday use, and not just in the benchmarks.

Because Hitachi took over the IBM harddisk division, and the 7K250 is
based on IBM technology, some people will probably doubt its
reliability.

As you are aware, the 75GXP had bad reliability, but the figures on
the later models like the 120GXP and 180GXP show that they are just as
reliable as any other brand.

I haven't heard bad stories on the 7K250 yet. It seems most people now
complain about Maxtor disks.
I have both Maxtor DiamondMax plus 9 and Hitachi 7K250 and both are
fine. But the Maxtors have some seeknoise, where the Hitachi is
completely quiet.
So my choice would be the Hitachi.

Marc
 
Nope.

last spring Maximum PC did a comparison and concluded
that in spite of the failures in the 75G IBMs, the IBM
(now Hitachi) 180GXP 180G 7200RPM 8MB cache
was the fastest IDE drive on the market. I bought one
and used it in a desktop and it was startlingly fast.
Click to expand...

Hope you superglued your sox on.
Have since sold the desktop and am not building
a Shuttle and thinking of optimum drive for it.
Interested in speed, reliability, & quiet.
Click to expand...

I bet you couldnt pick the fastest from the
best 5 in a proper double blind trial without
being allowed to use a benchmark on speed.

You would on quiet.

There isnt any hard data on reliability available.
Is there a standard IDE drive that has
replaced the 180GXP on top of heap?
Click to expand...

It was never a 'heap' that had much relevance.
 
silo said:
last spring Maximum PC did a comparison and concluded that in spite of the
failures in the 75G IBMs, the IBM (now Hitachi) 180GXP 180G 7200RPM 8MB
cache was the fastest IDE drive on the market. I bought one and used it in a
desktop and it was startlingly fast.

Have since sold the desktop and am not building a Shuttle and thinking of
optimum drive for it. Interested in speed, reliability, & quiet.

Is there a standard IDE drive that has replaced the 180GXP on top of heap?
Click to expand...

Check out the Hitachi 7K250.

Although for SATA performance the top of the heap is the Western Digital
Raptors.
 
thanks. did lots of research last night at Storage Tech and thus came up
with the 7K250 or the 74GB Raptor for max speed. But am putting in a
Shuttle and am not sure if the greater rotation speed, vibration, heat, etc.
could be handled by Shuttle. Probably will try the 120GB version of the
7K250.

appreciate all help--

silo
 
J. Clarke said:
heap?

Check out the Hitachi 7K250.

Although for SATA performance the top of the heap is the Western Digital
Raptors.
Click to expand...

Well, the Raptor has prices similar to 10k rpm scsi drives, i.e. $3 to $4
per GB. The 7K250 is in the 7200 rpm IDE drive price range, i.e. about 50
cents per GB after rebate.

Regards,
Dave
 
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