Storage Review heeft een review gepost van de Quantum Vuurbal Plux KX, een schijf die in veel opzichten gelijk is aan de Fireball KA (7200rpm, 512Kb cache), maar dan met een hogere platter size van 6,8Gb. De performance is errug goed, hij gaat zelfs de IBM / Western Digital schijven voorbij:
When stacked against the Summer 1999 ATA Drive Roundup 7200rpm Editor's Choice, the Fireball Plus KX performs admirably. The KX inches past the Western Digital Expert AC418000 by a margin of 1% in the Business Disk WinMark 99 test run under Windows 95. Results are similar in the High-End Disk WinMark, with the KX sliding ahead of the Expert by 3%. The gap increases in tests run under Windows NT 4.0. Here the Quantum triumphs by 7% in the Business Disk WinMark and a substantial 19% in High-End tests.Interestingly, in low level tests, the KX is not quite the pioneer that its predecessor was. Though sustained transfer rates hit 23 MB/sec (an all-time high for ATA drives), access time has actually regressed by a couple milliseconds. Even so, the KX still manages to beat its advertised seek time- something that doesn't happen often.
Adaptec ThreadMark 2.0 results place the Fireball Plus KX significantly ahead of the Expert. Here the Quantum drive flies by the WD by about 27% in tests under both Windows 95 and Windows NT.
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