6.4 GB Ultra ATA Drive Comparison

Name: 6.4 GB Ultra ATA Drive Comparison
Item: 6.4 GB Ultra ATA Drive Comparison
Author: Storage Review

by Storage Review on March 21, 1998 2:34 PM EST

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Quantum Fireball SE QM36400SE-A
Average Score
Business Disk WinMark 98 (KB/s)		1254
	SS/Database	1128
	WP	1522
	Publishing	1144
	Browsers	1426
	Task Switching	1822
High-End Disk WinMark 98 (KB/s)		3722
	AVS/Express 3.1	2306
	Frontpage 97	2920
	MicroStation 95	7032
	Photoshop 4.0	3038
	Premiere 4.2	6952
	PV-Wave 6.1	2720
	Visual C++ 5.0	8220
Disk/Read Random Access (ms)		16.3
Disk/Read Transfer Rate (KB/s)
	Beginning	11800
	End	7170
Disk/Read CPU Utilization (%)		5.9
	Transfer Rate (KB/s)	11758

Though it does not enjoy as significant a retail presence as Maxtor and Western Digital, Quantum drives are quite often found as the stock unit in retail systems. Quantum has two offerings in the 6.4 GB Ultra ATA range, the performance-oriented Fireball SE along the value-oriented Bigfoot TX (see sidebar). Despite a relatively low 128kb buffer size, the Fireball SE trailed only IBM’s Deskstar 5 in performance, edging out Maxtor’s DiamondMax to finish second in both the Business and High-End Disk WinMarks. The Fireball is also very reasonably priced through mail-order, OEM packaging. Above-average performance along with competitive pricing make the Quantum Fireball SE an easy value recommendation.

6.4 GB Ultra ATA Drive Comparison

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