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  • 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.

  • External Hard Drive Charts

    This page is updated on a regular basis and provides a unique resource for everybody who is looking for a desktop hard drive - whether it is for home or for business use. Our service allows for interactive performance comparison, real-time price/performance and costs per Gigabyte analysis.

  • Enterprise Hard Drive Charts

    Tom's Interactive Enterprise Hard Drive Charts compare high-end server/workstation hard drives used in enterprise-class systems. The 15 benchmarks we used as a testing platform are the same as the ones featured in the other HDD Charts, but the interpretation of the data is different in the enterprise segment: Servers often depend on maximum I/O performance rather than on raw throughput. Of course, you can also check various other criteria: read and write throughput, sorted by average, minimum and maximum, access time, interface performance and four I/O benchmark patterns. You will find most of the popular enterprise hard drives made by Fujitsu, Hitachi and Seagate; all using either Ultra320 SCSI or SAS interfaces. Then there is the price/performance index which helps you select a particular drive, as it relates performance and capacity to cost of drive. If your company requires a large number of hard drives, this feature will enable you to make an informed and budget friendly decision.

News

  • Western Digital intros its first perpendicular hard drive
    Wednesday 13 September 2006 – 10:31
    Western Digital (WD) has caught up with other hard drive manufacturers such as Seagate, Toshiba and Hitachi and is offering its first hard drive that uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR). The new 2.5" Scorpio drive stores up to 160 GB. Competitor Toshiba announced a reduced-size 1.8" PMR drive.
  • Update: Microsoft to offer HD DVD drive for Xbox 360 in Q4
    Monday 8 May 2006 – 10:42
    Microsoft confirmed at E3 that it will be offering an external HD DVD drive for its Xbox 360 gaming console in the fourth quarter of this year. Compared to Sony's Blu-ray, HD DVD will offer similar functionality, but will be available for substantially less money, Microsoft promised.
  • IGo's Bullet Drive Professional External Hard Drive
    Tuesday 15 January 2002 – 09:09
    When it comes to external storage, the market seems to be awash in options and form factors that will let you back up reliably and shuttle files back and forth between your stable of computers.
  • Stolen USB drive contains info on all Idaho National Guard members
    Friday 17 August 2007 – 10:22
    Boise (ID) – An Idaho National Guard member managed to have a USB thumb drive containing thousands of soldiers’ records stolen out of her car. The tiny drive was not encrypted and had the Social Security numbers and other personal information of 3400 sol
  • Fujitsu intros first 2.5" 7200 rpm hard drive with SATA 2.5 interface
    Tuesday 6 March 2007 – 05:43
    Fujitsu today announced the first 7200 rpm notebook hard drives that come with a 3.0 Gb/s Serial ATA 2.5 interface, as opposed to the widely available 1.5 Gb/s port.

Articles & reviews

  • Conventional Hard Drive Obsoletism? Samsung's 32 GB Flash Drive Previewed*
    Wednesday 20 September 2006 – 03:14
    Conventional Hard Drive Obsoletism? Samsung's 32 GB Flash Drive Previewed Samsung has provided us with a new 32 GB Flash Solid State Hard Disk. How does performance compare to conventional hard drives and what are the implications for desktop and mobility users?
  • Turbo Drive: Two Dual Boards with 2000 MHz*
    Thursday 1 February 2001 – 06:00
    In this contest, Intel 815E and VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipsets are competing against each other on dual processor grounds. We tested two boards - the Acorp 6A815D and the Asus CUV4X-D - under Windows 2000 Pro and Suse Linux 6.4.
  • Two Hard Drive Coolers Compared*
    Tuesday 9 September 2008 – 07:40
    Two Hard Drive Coolers Compared The Vigor iSurf II Hard Drive Cooler battles Sytrin's HD Cooler to see which works better. Both take similar approaches to cooling your HDD. They both work, but which is worth the price?
  • Miniature Disk Drive: The Toshiba MK3006GAL Delivers 30 GB in a 1.8" Form Factor*
    Wednesday 23 March 2005 – 06:00
    Whether it's MP3 players, subnotebook computers, or car infotainment systems, the market for small hard drives is booming. And while 2.5" notebook drives have become the standard for high-capacity mobile storage, applications abound for even smaller drives. Toshiba's new MK3006GAL packs 30 GB of storage into the 1.8" form factor - but how well does it work?
  • USB Thumb Drive Vs. Hard Drive*
    Thursday 11 September 2008 – 07:00
    USB Thumb Drive Vs. Hard Drive We compared a tiny 8 GB Super Talent USB thumb drive to a 10-year old IBM hard drive of the same size in an interesting thought experiment. Does the hard drive stand a chance against Super Talent’s storage midget?

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