Thread: Western Digital Master 27 gigabyte HD

The WD 27.3 gigabyte has been famous lately above the Internet. I purchased my 27.3 gigabyte drive a pair of weeks before to substitute my sluggish and much littler 8.4 gigabyte Maxtor drive, but this review has not gone live till about 4 other reviews of this similar drive have popped up entire over the internet.


This drive is easily awesome when it arrives to function and is monstrous when it arrives to memory capacity. It is, however, a small pricey.


When I acquired this drive a pair of weeks before and that is less the ATA-66 controller I purchased three days prior to getting the drive. For this drive, I choosed the Abit Hot Rod 66 controller. The Abit edition of the ATA-66 controller utilizes the popular HighPoint controller chip. When this controller chip is amazing at delivering function, I did search that it was not 100% compatible with other drives.


The Western Digital 27.3 gigabyte drive had no trouble with the controller at entire, while the 8.4 gigabyte Maxtor drive I had hooked up to the controller locked up on few heavy document transfers.





I imagine the chief thing that drew me into purchasing this drive was the velocity development that I would see over my 8.4 gigabyte drive. With my Celeron 550MHz, TNT2 Ultra and 224 megabyte of random access memory, the just particular that was holding me back was the slow function from the two 8.4 gigabyte Maxtor drives.


The outer of the WD 27.3 gigabyte drive appears so same to that of IBM drives. This is because Western Digital licensed a plenty of IBM’s drive technology. This is excellent for Western Digital, IBM and for us.


Western Digital Drives are in build nearly everywhere, while IBM drives are not and IBM drives, in the last, were the quicker drives around. Just, when you purchase a Western Digital drive you can look to see function close that of IBMs and that is what I looked from my 27.3 gigabyte Western Digital drive.


The 27.3 gigabyte drive from Western Digital extends 27.3 gigabyte of memory though 4 6.8 gigabyte platters spinning at 7200 RPM. It extends an ATA-66 interface and a vast 2 megabyte buffer. Entire of these both are what drawn me the most into buying this drive and I was not disappointed.