Which is a better brand maxtor or seagate?

and also what is the difference between SATA OR ULTRA ATA..because i am looking at the announcement seagate 300gb ultra ata/100 hard drive i know that alot of memory but a short time ago wonder if you guys can help a bother out

Which is a better brand maxtor or seagate?

seagate hand down in this comparison



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SATA and Seagate you will not dance wrong with that...
SATA is a faster verbs mechanism than Ultra ATA but you will inevitability a mother board that supports SATA in proclaim to use a SATA HDD. And Ultra ATA HDD will work on a boad that supports other ATA HDD but may not work as fast as a board that have suppost for Ultra ATA.



Both Maxtor and Seagate are good brands. What you want to try to capture is the lowest seek time, topmost RPM and a high cache memory for your money.



Hope this help
Definitely Seagate ..... no contest.



Go for SATA 2 (300 MByte transfer rate) a bit than invest in elder & slower technology.



You may need to buy a SATA 2 adapter if you PC does not already enjoy one. They sell for around $40.



***** MAKE SURE THEY ARE BOTH (HDD & Card) SATA 2 *****



regard,

Philip T
seagate
Seagate mainly make internal HDDs, and Maxtor makes External HDDs. They are on the whole the same.