A Look at Maxtor's D740X, and ATA-133

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Appendix A

By: Dan Mepham

Application	DiamondMax Plus 60 On-board ATA-100	DiamondMax Plus 60 Controller ATA-100	DiamondMax Plus D740X On-board ATA-100	DiamondMax Plus D740X Controller ATA-133	D740X Extrapolated On-board ATA-133
Bryce 4	214	224	218	226	218
CorelDRAW 9.0	234	240	239	241	239
Elastic Reality 3.1	228	239	230	248	237
Excel 2000	235	235	232	235	235
Naturally Speaking Preferred 4.0	189	189	188	190	190
Netscape Communicator 4.61	205	205	204	206	206
Paradox 9.0	191	198	193	202	195
PhotoShop 5.5	158	158	158	160	160
PowerPoint 2000	231	231	224	225	225
Premiere 5.1	196	198	195	196	195
Word 2000	177	180	179	182	179
Windows Media Encoder 4.0	190	187	188	191	194
Office Productivity	208	211	207	210	207
Content Creation	196	200	196	202	198
TOTAL	203	206	203	207	204

1. Introduction
2. New Standards, Old Parallels
3. ATA-133, All Show, No Go?
4. PCI Bus Loading
5. Maxtor's DiamondMax Plus D740X
6. Test Setup & Procedure
7. Performance - Burst Transfer Rate
8. Performance - Access Time
9. Performance - Sequential Transfer Rates
10. Performance - IOMeter
11. Performance - SYSMark
12. Conclusion
13. Appendix A

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Product Ratings

Maxtor DiamondMax Plus D740X
Performance: 9/10
Quality: 8/10
Features: 10/10
Price: 6/10
Overall Rating: 9/10

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