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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

Digital TV chip market to double by 2011, says iSuppli
Thursday 9 August 2007 – 10:08 in Business
Booming sales of digital TVs (DTVs) during the coming years will yield huge opportunities for semiconductor suppliers, with revenue from shipments of chips for this segment expected to double from 2006 to 2011, research firm iSuppli predicts.Global DTV s
Digital X-ray can scan body in seconds
Monday 16 June 2003 – 10:49
Although not directly related to PC hardware, this is still very interesting news nonetheless.
Western Digital annual hard drive shipments approach 100 million units
Friday 27 July 2007 – 10:57 in Business
Western Digital (WDC) today announced a solid fiscal Q4 (FQ4) 2007 and fiscal year (FY) 2007 result. In the quarter ended June 30, the company shipped 24.9 million hard drives, up from 19.2 million units in the year-ago quarter. Sales climbed from $1.1 b
Pure Digital camcorder shoots video to the Internet in one-click
Monday 16 October 2006 – 07:56
Consumers will soon be able to easily upload their camcorder videos with a new "Point and Shoot" camcorder from Pure Digital. The inexpensive recorder can record up to 60 minutes of video and then upload it to either Google Video or Sony's Grouper service with one click.
Your "digital living" will be worth $300 billion per year by 2010 - report
Wednesday 20 December 2006 – 07:32
According to a new report out by technology research firm Parks Associates, the amount of money spent on digital living products and services, like mobile phone and Internet costs, will reach $300 billion within four years.

Articles & reviews

Western Digital's WD3200JB: 320 GB and Lots of Ambition*
Thursday 17 February 2005 – 06:00
Western Digital counters Hitachi and Seagate's high-capacity hard drive series with a 320 GB device. But after factoring in noise, speed and other factors, does the WD3200JB shrink from the competition?
Digital Photography's Present and Future Live at Photokina*
Thursday 30 September 2004 – 06:00
Photokina is THE international trade event for digital photography. Held in Germany every two years in Cologne and its famous Koelnmesse, Photokina serves as a forum for the latest offerings as well as what the not-so-distant future holds in story for digital cameras.
Canon Digital Rebel XT (EOS350D) vs. Nikon D70s: The Competitors for Top Prosumer SLR*
Tuesday 12 July 2005 – 07:00
The summer stage of the heated race between Canon's Rebel XT (EOS350D outside the US) and Nikon's D70s for supremacy in the prosumer digital SLR category has arrived. Both are solid performers, and our extensive review shows where they each have their advantages.
CES 2007: The battle for the digital home - analyst opinion*
Saturday 6 January 2007 – 07:07
Get ready for the battle for the digital home: CES and Macworld are just a few days away and both will lure you with new media center devices. Behind the scenes, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, and AMD are assembling the core technologies, but the front end is more interesting: HP, Dell and Apple will be the primary vendors making a run at this new market. Let's have a closer look.
Digital Camera: Canon Powershot A80*
Thursday 4 September 2003 – 07:00
We were able to test the Powershot A80, Canon's latest mid-range digital camera, a few weeks prior to its launch. New features include a bigger sensor and ergonomic improvements, such as an adjustable LCD screen. So should owners of Canon's A70 start selling their cameras on Ebay? It all depends on what you expect from a digital camera for $500.