It can't be beat for the money. However, if you examine closely the article by Storage Review , you'll see they measured the speed of the 75GB and 45GB drives as virtually identical. The Maxtor DiamondMax 80GB was reviewed by Storage Review . They also reviewed the IBM 75GXP 75 GB . Use SoftRAID to create a striped array using two or more drives.
Sustained Rate is displayed in the charts.
Peak rates can be impressive but do not reflect typical drive performance. Although you can choose various block sizes from 1K to 1024K, I chose to display the 1024K results. I set it to play all frames as fast as possible. Using a stopwatch, the playback is timed to the nearest tenth of a second.