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Posted at 10:07 AM on Sunday 05/11/08 by
Ben
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TigerDirect.com has the Maxtor DiamondMax 21 500GB SATA 3.0 Gb/s Hard Drive (STM3500630AS) for $75 + $8 shipping = $83 shipped. It sports a 16MB Cache and rotational speed of 7200RPM. [BizRate]
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    antillie - Posted 10:31 am PDT 05/11/08 (139 Posts)  Report Spam

    Of course, the 3.0 gb/s is misleading as no hard drive will move that fast. That just means the SATA cable is capable of that speed. Expect under 100 mb/s, usually around 50 mb/s as top transfer speed for a platter hard drive.

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    Towncivilian - Posted 10:36 am PDT 05/11/08 (1236 Posts)  Report Spam

    #1 many newer hard drives have 90 MB/s+ STR. Also, 3.0Gb/s allows for faster burst rates.

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    techsupport - Posted 10:51 am PDT 05/11/08 (5129 Posts)  Report Spam

    Bus speed works at that speed with cache. Would better with higher cache size.

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    HyBRiDxCRX - Posted 12:48 pm PDT 05/11/08 (25 Posts)  Report Spam

    Is that right?

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    sandshrew - Posted 2:03 pm PDT 05/11/08 (19 Posts)  Report Spam

    Link goes to a PATA drive.

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    SelfGovern - Posted 2:55 pm PDT 05/11/08 (2021 Posts)  Report Spam

    That's right.

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    omega55 - Posted 7:01 pm PDT 05/12/08 (183 Posts)  Report Spam

    D'oh...

    Hard Disk Drives > Internal IDE PATA > 400 - 750 GB

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