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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.
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

Self-assembling Polymer Arrays The Secret Of Next-generation Hard Drives?
Friday 15 August 2008 – 11:00
Madison (WI) - Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies discovered a new patterning technology that could lead to a new generation of hard drives that are not only easier to manufacture but also feature a storage density that cannot be achieved with traditional media and processes today.
Hitachi Aims Low-power Hard Drives At Consumer Electronics
Wednesday 28 May 2008 – 03:40
San Jose (CA) - We have been hearing a lot lately about low-power hard drives and Hitachi GST is only the latest company to continue the trend.
Hard disk shipments reach new record level
Wednesday 22 February 2006 – 05:23
Hard disk manufacturers ended 2005 on a high note, setting a new record for quarterly shipments. According to market research firm iSuppli, the industry shipped 103.4 million units in the fourth quarter of last year, up 8.3 percent from 95.4 million in the third quarter, and up 20.9 percent from 85.5 million in Q4 of 2004.
Hitachi Fires Up Second-generation Terabyte Hard Drives
Wednesday 9 July 2008 – 11:40
San Jose (CA) - Hitachi renovated its 3.
Seagate helps your hard drive stay hard
Friday 1 December 2006 – 09:00
Seagate CEO Bill Watkins will probably be known as the most brutally honest hard drive executive in history. During a dinner conversation with Fortune's senior editor Jeffrey O'Brien, Watkins said, "We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn."

Articles & reviews

Flash-Based Hard Drives Are Here*
Monday 13 August 2007 – 01:56 in Consumer Electronics
The first fully-featured, commercially-available solid-state drive (SSD) has reached our storage test lab. While we already reviewed an uber-expensive prototype from Samsung a year ago, and most memory vendors have only been announcing flash-based drive
Smart Hard Drives: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and Western Digital WD740 Raptor*
Friday 23 January 2004 – 06:00
The serial ATA interface is enhanced with a feature from SCSI: Native Command Queuing. Seagate's 7200.7 is the only native SATA interface commercially available, while Western Digital intends to accommodate the low-end server market with its new 74 GB Raptor.
Transportation Security Administration loses hard drive*
Monday 7 May 2007 – 10:56
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), often regarded as the cornerstone of the United States' homeland security, has lost a hard drive containing information of over 100,000 people. ...
The Future of the Hard Drive, 50 Years On*
Thursday 14 September 2006 – 04:32
Let's look 50 years ahead in time! Tom's Hardware Guide asked Seagate's Senior Field Applications Engineer Henrique Atzkern what he thinks the future holds for the hard disk drive.
14-Way SSD Hard Drive Roundup*
Monday 18 August 2008 – 05:30
Having found a number of SSDs that don’t deliver on their efficiency promises, we decided to put 14 different drives to the test. Here is the latest roundup--dominated by a single product.