X-Bit Labs heeft zojuist haar review van de IBM Deskstar 60GXP online gemept. Deze opvolger van de 75GXP-serie is voorzien van 20GB platters en is leverbaar in versies van 20, 40 en 60GB. Uit de benchmarks bleek dat de drive zeer snel is: in bepaalde gevallen wist hij met maar liefst 20% verschil als winnaar uit de bus te komen. Het enige minpuntje waar de reviewer over praat is de cache-chip die volgens hem mogelijk oververhit zou kunnen raken. Afgezien van dat vermoeden is er niets dan lof voor dit schijfje:
New IBM Deskstar 60GXP hard disk drive showed brilliant performance in all the benchmarks, file and synthetic ones. Sometimes it left its competitors with similar features up to 20% behind, which is a really impressive achievement for a HDD of the same generation as its counterparts.
Among he most unpleasant issues we would like to mention the cache-buffer microchip moved to the inner side of the electronic board. In this case the microchip can get overheated and hence the data stored in the cache can be lost. Maybe our suspicions are totally ungrounded, but… To tell the truth, we wouldn't recommend fastening this HDD inside the PC case with all the electronics turned upwards and without any extra cooling on that side.
In general, some time ago we thought that the hard disk drives with this set of features were nearly ideal now, and that it would be hardly possible to get to a new level without some drastic changes, such as, for example, increase in data density, cache-buffer size, rotation speed, etc. Now that we got acquainted with IBM Deskstar 60GXP we changed our mind and are no longer making conclusions like that.
