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IBM Ultrastar 18XP Price: $1,745 Warranty: 5 years
Distributors/Integrators: Anthem Electronics, Bell Micro, Gates/Arrow, Marshall Industries, Merisel, Synnex, Western Micro Authorization Requirements: None Model Number: DGHS
IBM Ultrastar 9ZX Price: $1,245 Model Number: DGVS
HIM Storage 9 Din San Jose, Calif. (800) 426-7777 www.ibm.com /storage THE IBM ULTRASTAR 9ZX was one of the fastest spinning drives in this review, but it yielded only the second-best overall performance and the third-best per- formance value. Both can be accounted for by the number of platters and read heads it includes. The additional platters and heads add to the cost, making it the most expensive unit among the performance-class drives. Another ex- ( pense is its full-height enclosure, the only one used among the performance drives. The heavier head mechanism required for the additional heads slows down the operations per...