HardCOREware.net did a “PATA drive roundup”. Apart from the fact that there are only four competitors, one of them even being a SATA drive, it still remains a nice review. Swords are drawn between hitachi (the drives formerly know as IBM, or sometimes even death star (no i’m not looking down to my still working IBM)), Maxtor and Seagate.
Every drive has some good and bad points, but in the end, IBM wins:
“The biggest surprise for me in this roundup was the excellence of the 180GXP from HGST since I’ve come to expect very little from IBM drives (even though they’re not IBM anymore) after what happened a year or two ago. However, all that seems to be in the past and the 180GXP is, hands down, the pick of this litter. Because of its superior performance numbers and heat disappation, I award it our “I AM HARDCORE” award for being the best of what I assume is the last generation of PATA hard drives.”
Maxtor was noisy, warm, but still the reporter’s favorite; Seagate was silent but slow.
More details are to be found here.
