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Of course it has been a joke - I'm sure that you can draw the conclusions of your own. But let me nevertheless attach some remarks that seem rather important to me:

There has been some rumor on the harddisk-market: A new standard was born - the UATA/133, and the drives are getting faster and faster... So I made up my mind to add three of the newest harddisks available at this moment: the Maxtor Plus D740X as the first and still only UATA/133 drive, its slower brother, the D540X as a high capacity 5400 rpm drive and the Seagate Barracuda ATA IV as the successor of the ATA III. Unfortuantely I have not been able to consider the benchmarks of the Maxtor D540X yet - they are likely to follow within the next days.

First of all it's evident that I only considered the 'raw' performance of those eleven harddisks. Other important qualitites of a harddrive like the noise level or the temperature level are not taken into consideration.

Applying other benchmarks will lead to different results; the very popular I/O Meter for example is very likely to produce another ranking! If you are deeply interested in these differences, please refer to the excellent pages of the STORAGEREVIEW - those guys really do a very good job!

Further, it might be astonishing that a disk of a former generation, namely the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 45, is still capable of following the newest models and of beating its successor from the Maxtor Plus 60 family.

The 7200 drives dominate the field what is not at all surprising. Remarkable nevertheless is the performance of the WD Caviar AB modell that - except of its poor access time - can very well follow the faster drives.

And last but not least: One of my PCs has got an IBM Deskstar 40GV as a system disk, and I really can't complain about that drive even though it has been rated 4.2 and seems to be the big loser of the competition. What is doubtlessly leading to the last conclusion: The better is the good's old foe!