1.8" Hard Drives: Small is Beautiful

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Data Transfer Performance

With a transfer speed of around 25 MB/s, the Toshiba 1.8" drives are fast for their category, but they are far from the performance levels of a quick 2.5" hard drive. You will notice this difference as soon as large amounts of data have to be read from or written to the drive. Think of the Windows boot process, launching an application, a refresh of game level data or unpacking files; you will notice the hard drive delay as long as the processor is not the bottleneck.

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.

4 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Where can i find an enclosure that can read from this HD?
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  • On ebay, for around $10
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  • great article, this HDD type is new to me.. :)
    thanks
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  • Where did you hear "big is beautiful"? This author probably has a fat ass girlfriend!
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