Compare Seagate Atlas® 10K IV 36.7 GB SCSI Ultra320 Hard Drive to Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 400 GB SATA II Hard Drive

Maxtor Atlas 10K IV drive is the industry's fastest performing 10K RPM hard disk drive. Its 146GB capacity point and 4.3 ms seek time provide just the right combination of performance and capacity to meet mainstream enterprise hard disk drive market requirements. The Atlas 10K IV drive provides up to a 30% increase in sustained data transfer rates and delivers 9% faster seek times than prior 10K RPM hard disk drive generations. ??The drive is equipped with the Maxtor second-generation Ultra320 SCSI interface, which includes MaxAdapt, Maxtor's implementation of adaptive active filtration technology. MaxAdapt is a closed-loop method of improving signal quality by amplifying the fundamental frequency of the signal in the receiver while filtering noise and other undesirable components. MaxAdapt allows the drive to adapt to changing system conditions and components. This translates into lower error rates, easier integration, and increased bus efficiency for optimal system performance. M... Less

Barracuda 7200.9 is a member of the Seagate 3.5-inch family of high-capacity desktop drives targeted at mainstream and high-performance PCs and advanced storage applications. The product enables OEMs and system builders to qualify one family of drives from a premier provider for a wide range of storage applications. Less