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Slautech has posted a review on the Western Digital WD400 40GB vs the Maxtor D740X-6L drive.



The Western Digital WD400BB and the Maxtor D740X-6L 40GB drives are both considered to be 'performance ATA desktop drives' by their respective manufacturers. Both drives spin at 7200rpm. The Western Digital WD400BB is an ATA100 drive where as the Maxtor D740X-6L is an ATA133 drive. I'm running both drives on my trusty KG7-Raid using the onboard HPT370 raid controller. Since the HPT370 is only capable of ATA100 this is still a fair comparison.
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