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PinoyPC Excelstor Europa J360 60GB Review Contributed by Louie Dulay Friday, 20 June 2003 Last Updated Wednesday, 25 April 2007 Excelstor, a relative newcomer to the hard drive segment, has released their 60GB drive. Louie takes it for a spin in his latest review. The hard drive market here in the Philippines is very different from the ones abroad. Here, the competition exists between Seagate and Maxtor. The numerous threads in PinoyPC are a testament to the huge foothold that these manufacturers have established here. A year ago, I was able to attend a product showcase by Asiantech where they showed their new line of hard drives from Excelstor. Who is Excelstor? To put it bluntly, they're a hard drive manufacturer in China that focuses in the mainstream market with a factory and are currently partnered with IBM. They share technology with IBM and have rights to develop their own hard drives. Also, they are the ones manufacturing the 120GXP Deskstars currently being sold under the IBM banner. The Drive Today, we take a look at Excelstor's Europa 60GB 7200 rpm drive. For most people, 60GB would be more than enough space for the OS, apps and games. You can even fill it up with a huge amount of "entertainment" videos (if you know what I mean). Anyway, the Europa makes use of a 60GB platter, which means it's just one platter. It has a 2MB cache just like the other drives in its class and has an average seek time of 8.5ms. Also, it uses ATA100 to interface with the IDE controller. You can see IBM's handiwork just by looking at the drive. From the IBM chips on the controller board to the pin layout at the rear and the jumper diagrams, you'd recognize this as an IBM drive. The drive reminds me of my old Deskstar 75GXP, which unfortunately died twice. IBM chips underneath Even the top resembles the Deskstar Installing the drive was easy enough and was painlessly done; just connect the cables and you're good to go. The drive's windup kind of scared me because of the squeaking noise (hey I don't want a dead drive in my hands) it makes but I got used to it quickly. During operation, the drive is silent - though I doubt if it can beat the Seagate Barracuda in that respect. I played around with the drive; I moved files through the network and played a bit with the newly installed OS and games (hehe). I had no problems all throughout. The drive did get hot during operation, but not as hot as my Deskstar was before. http://www.pinoypc.net Powered by Joomla! Generated: 22 September, 2008, 06:43 PinoyPC The Benchmark Unfortunately, I had no other 60GB platter drive to compare the Europa with so I just fired up my 40GB Seagate Barracuda IV and ran Sandra's File System benchmark. The test system I used was my personal computer consisting of an Athlon XP 1500+, Shuttle AK35GTR KT266A motherboard, 512MB PC21