Gamers Depot heeft een review van de Quantum Atlas 10K 18GB Ultra160 SCSI on line gegooid. Deze familie harddisks staat bekend om een z'n goede performance voor een redelijke prijs. Dit 18GB modelletje kost $299, heeft een 2MB buffer en draait op 10.000rpm. In de benchmarks moest de Atlas 10K het opnemen tegen de Cheetah 36LP van Seagate. Op het gebied van maximale doorvoer van MB's valt de Altas 10K wat tegen. In 'real life' applicaties doet deze drive het echter prima. Hieronder de conclusie:
Quantum seems to have done their homework on this drive, as it provides some great performance for real-world applications, which is the thing that truly matters most. With other drives out there barking for your hard-earned dollar, you’ll be hard pressed to find a drive that will deliver better bang for the buck. The only argument we could think of as to why someone wouldn’t want to invest into a drive like this is that for the same price you could score on an IDE drive with 4 times the amount of storage.
As with most SCSI drives, it typically comes down to that argument. To make a simple analogy, you could get 2-3 pickup trucks for the same price of a Range Rover, and of course they’d have more storage capacity. But you have to ask yourself what’s more important, huge storage or performance?
With a going price of around $299.00, the Atlas 10K does prove to be an excellent price/performance leader. There are few reasons we could think of to not buy this drive if you’re in the market for a drive that should provide you with many years of excellent service.Pluses:
+ Excellent Real-World Performance
+ Good price for a drive in its class
+ Good pricepoint at $299.00
Minuses:
- Slower maximum data throughput than competing drives
). Ik denk dat (maar heb geen hard bewijs) dat deze scsi drive leuk is als je al bezitter bent van een Ultra160 controller plus kabel, maar voor de rest kan men IMHO beter gaan voor een IBM ATA100 beest.
