Hardware Central heeft een review gepost waarin de 10.000rpm Quantum Atlas 10K en Atlas 10K II SCSI drives vergeleken worden. Uit de benchmark resultaten blijkt dat de tweede generatie Atlas 10K schijf aanzienlijk sneller is dan het eerste model. De gemiddelde transfer rate is toegenomen van 22,0 naar 33,3MB/s en tegerlijkertijd is de gemiddelde toegangstijd met 14,5% afgenomen tot 7,1ms. Ook wat betreft warmteproduktie gooit de 10K II hoge ogen :
One thing concerned us a bit, and that’s the amount of heat the Atlas 10K II generates. Whereas the 10K gets pretty hot, the Atlas 10K II was often too hot to our liking, you couldn’t even lay a finger on it. Although it comes fitted with small cooling fins, it might be a good idea to create some airflow across it to keep it safe from overheating. Especially when mounted in a small, midi- or rack-mounted-case, as meeting the disk's maximum operating conditions might be a bit of an issue then.To summarize, as an Ultra-fast, quiet and above all reliable harddisk, the Quantum Atlas 10K II certainly deserves your attention. With capacities ranging from 9.1 to 73.4 GB, a 68-pin or 80-pin SCA SCSI connection, mindboggeling throughput and all the other outstanding features, it might just be the disk to you’re looking for. We were impressed by the Quatum Atlas 10K II’s steller performance, and it deserves a warm recommendation.
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