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Maxtor may now be owned by Seagate, but Maxtor-branded internal SATA hard disks continue to be released. The 500GB DiamondMax 22 is one of the cheapest internal 500GB hard disks we've seen at just £52. The DiamondMax did very well in our large-file transfer test, with an overall speed of just under 80MB/s. It was less impressive when transferring small files, though, writing them at an unremarkable 8.1MB/s and reading them at a sluggish 16.4MB/s. The price works out at a low 11p per gigabyte but this doesn't make up for the unremarkable small-files performance. Western Digital's 640GB Caviar SE16 is larger, performed consistently well in all our tests, costs even less per gigabyte and is only £10 more. Unless you're on a tight budget, the Caviar is better value. By Alan Lu SPECIFICATIONS:
500GB hard disk, 465GB formatted capacity (NTFS), SATA 300 interface, 7,200rpm spindle speed, 32MB cache, 10.6ms seek time, 31dB(A) noise when idle Sponsored Links
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