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  • 2.5" Hard Drive Charts

    Tom's Interactive 2.5" Hard Drive Charts compare notebook hard drives. Here you will find 2.5" UltraATA and Serial ATA hard drives manufactured by Fujitsu, Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital. The charts include all popular capacities starting at 40 GB as well as listing hard drives running at 4,200, 5,400 or 7,200 RPM. 15 benchmarks help to determine application perforrmance and low-level performance, giving you all the throughput, access time, interface and I/O performance results. The 2.5" HDD Charts also include the Cost per Gigabyte calculation and our Price/Performance Index, which helps you to find the best bang for the buck. In addition, we measured power consumption of most the notebook hard drives, so you can see which models are energy efficient and which ones aren't.

  • 3.5" Hard Drive Charts

    Tom's Interactive 3.5" Hard Drive Charts compare low-level as well as application performance of more than 40 popular hard drive models. The charts include all popular 3.5" desktop drive manufacturers such as Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital. They list UltraATA and Serial ATA interfaces, 7,200 and 10,000 RPM drives, and capacities between 36 GB and 1000 GB. 15 individual benchmark categories analyze read and write throughput, interface performance, average access time, Windows startup performance and several I/O access patterns that are imperative for server and workstation scenarios. Two comparison features make our Hard Drive Charts unique on the Internet: The Cost per Gigabyte calculation and the Price/Performance Index, which relates performance, capacity and cost. Prices are updated daily using the latest price information provided by TG Stores.

News

  • Serial ATA-based boards to hit market in late July, not mainstream until 2003
    Wednesday 3 July 2002 – 04:53
    Although motherboards supporting the new-generation Serial ATA hard drive interface are expected to hit the market in late July, manufacturers predict that the latest specification will more likely become the market mainstream in 2003, when more chipset companies integrate the standard into their south bridge chips.More here at DigiTimes
  • Maxtor's New Ultra ATA/133 Interface
    Wednesday 1 August 2001 – 07:47
    Maxtor just let us know about its new Ultra ATA/133 hard drive interface, which it says boosts data transfer rates between the computer and the hard drive up to 133 megaBytes (MB) per second.
  • SimpleTech's 2GB Type I ATA PC Card
    Thursday 6 September 2001 – 07:05
    Solid state storage capacities are on the rise and it seems like they should be moving from their traditional role in "ruggedized" shock-proof apps into other areas.
  • Samsung ships Serial ATA II drives, shows hybrid harddrive
    Wednesday 27 April 2005 – 08:29
    Samsung claims it is first to make harddrives with a Serial ATA II (SATA II) interface commercially available. Three new drives were announced on Wednesday, aiming at gaming and enterprise applications.
  • ALi's New Southbridge for Ultra ATA/133
    Wednesday 5 September 2001 – 07:04
    Acer Laboratories (ALi) just let us know about the M1535D+ Southbridge, which supports Maxtor's Fast Drive ATA/133 hard drive interface.

Articles & reviews

  • Serial ATA Is Here: Seagate Barracuda ATA V and Five of the Latest Controllers Reviewed*
    Tuesday 4 February 2003 – 06:00
    It has been a long time coming, but the first hard disk with Serial ATA interface has finally reached our testing labs. Seagate's 120 GB Barracuda ATA V heralds the beginning of a new interface era. To discover what this new drive can do, we also assembled five of the latest host adapters from Promise, HighPoint and 3Ware, and put them through their paces.
  • Final Touches on ATA: Hard-Drive Accessories Roundup*
    Tuesday 13 January 2004 – 06:00
    ATA hard drive vendors now look to accommodate simple server setups. A lot less pricey than SCSI, we decided to take a look at a few popular ATA accessory products from Maxtron, GUP, Promise, Raid Sonic and Star Tech to see how they measured up performance-wise.
  • Serial ATA Controller Untamed: The Silicon Image 3112*
    Friday 7 March 2003 – 06:00
    The Serial ATA controllers available till now have generally been bridged solutions based on parallel ATA chips. The 3112 from Silicon Image breaks the mold by making better use of Serial ATA's features. Moreover, it is already widely available.
  • Serial ATA in Mini Format: 2.5" Disk Drive from Fujitsu*
    Friday 6 December 2002 – 06:00
    Although the rollout of Serial ATA seems to be dragging its proverbial feet, Fujitsu is pressing ahead: their current line of 2.5" disk drives is available as a Serial ATA version. What practical benefits does the new interface have to offer?
  • Maxtor Goes Serial ATA: The DiamondMax Plus 9 Gets Put to the Test*
    Friday 14 March 2003 – 06:00
    Maxtor is supplying its first hard drives with a Serial ATA interface now. However, the DiamondMax Plus 9 was primarily designed for UltraATA/ 133, meaning that a converter chip is required to build the bridge to the new interface. This does not, however, have an adverse effect on performance.

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