Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9

This S-ATA drive, for 150MB/s performance in terms of bandwidth not much faster than many UDMA-100 hard drives, which is not great considering the hype surrounding SATA, and the extra costs of SATA controllers on motherboards. Then again the prices are very close to those of the UDMA counterparts so you can't really complain. 40MB/s is hardly quick for even one drive. However, I have two of these in my computer, but they didn't work for long even in RAID 0 although they are identical. So they just run along side each other with no problems. One is louder than the other for some reason, and also notably slower than the other even though write caching is enabled on both. This seems confusing but overall they perform well. I personally would say that Maxtor is better in the UDMA-133 department, but this product is decent