Quantum Fireball Plus LM 30GB review

Het volk van de Tech-Gods brengt ons een review van de Quantum Vuurbal LM, een 30GB 7200rpm ATA-66 harddisk met een buffer van 2MB. De performance van dit schijfje bleek aardig goed te zijn en sterk concurrerend met vergelijkbare modellen van Maxtor en Western Digital. Deze andere review bij Gamers Depot gaat daar trouwens in mee, alhoewel de benchmarks daar wel erg overdreven lijken. Hieronder in ieder geval een hap uit de conclusie van de eerste review:

So what do I have to say about this drive? I approve of it. I think you will as well. It's a quick drive and in terms of specs, it's got the goods. In the same field as the Maxtor DiamondMaxPlus 40 line and the Western Digital Caviar7200 line, the Quantum has the same size 2MB buffer and a seek time to match or even better it in some cases. In the real world performances, the drive seems to excel, which is the one place that hardware really should. To boot into Windows, after the SCSI initializing and the FastTrak posting, the drive took a mere 34.4 seconds with this particular setup. The drive is also quieter than the Maxtor DMPlus40, Maxtor DMPlus6800, and the WD Caviar 7200. Aside from that the performance is rock solid and quite impressive. As a result, I would have to give this drive at a 9.0 of 10.