Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y160M0 March 31st, 2003 | by Ian Bell
Performance
Measured in kilobytes per second; longer bars indicate better performance Measured in megabytes per second; longer bars indicate better performance You can see how much of a performance increase the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y160M) drive holds over the Maxtor DiamondMax D540X 160Gb drive. Keep in mind that the D540X drive has a speed of 5400RPM compared to the 7200RPM speed of the 6Y160M0 Drive. The D540X also has a 2mb buffer and ATA 100 transfer speeds. Both the D540X and 6Y160M0 drives had read burst speeds off the chart, over 80 megabytes per second. The 6Y160M0 tested 11.4ms access time in Winbench99 which is very impressive. CPU utilization is about 9.5% which is average.
by Steve on November 8, 2009:
“As said, I have had these 3 drives for a long time, and the machine is more on then off, so they had quite some 'running' time! Ok - it runs more hot than my 2 40GB Maxtor drives, but I invested in a few 120mm fans in my case - and they can now be...” More...