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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

  • Samsung pours money into chip making plants
    January 23, 2007 – 2:42 PM
    Samsung says it will sink $1.9 billion dollars to increase DRAM memory production in its factories in South Korea. The company will upgrade 14 existing plants in addition to building a 15th factory. Samsung believes DRAM demand will increase by more than 75 percent and hopes to increase DRAM shipments by 30% versus last year.
  • Samsung develops smarter and brighter LCDs
    September 6, 2006 – 3:16 PM
    Mobile phone users may not need to squint at their mobile phone screens anymore. Samsung claims it has developed a new display chip that makes LCDs brighter in daylight.
  • Samsung squeezes 640x480 pixels on 1.98" display
    June 7, 2006 – 12:47 AM
    Think your shiny new cellphone has a crisp display? Think again. Samsung is first to demonstrate actual VGA resolution on a cellphone-sized 1.98" display. Samsung says that the display shows ten times more detail than your average 40" high definition LCD TV.
  • Samsung-Sony joint-venture intros amorphous TFT displays
    April 19, 2005 – 5:00 PM
    S-LCD, a South Korea-based joint venture between Samsung and Sony, announced that it started shipment of amorphous TFT displays to its parent companies.
  • Samsung debuts UMPC with mobile broadband
    March 15, 2007 – 8:30 AM
    Following Microsoft's Origami campaign last year, we expected a world-changing mobile PC - and were disappointed by a product that was too large, too slow, too expensive and lacked important wireless features. Samsung has redesigned its Q1 for 2007 - and believes that the Q1 Ultra will fill the Q1's gaps. But we still have the impression that UMPCs remain half-baked products.

Articles

  • Samsung's SV1604N Workhorse Hard Drive for the Home
    May 25, 2004 – 1:00 PM
    Many hard drives that offer 5,400 rpm will more than get the job done when it comes to backing up data for home use. We look at one such hard drive, Samsung's SV1604N with a capacity of 160 GB, and see how its performance measures up to its low price.
  • Samsung Spinpoint F1 HDDs: New Winners?
    November 21, 2007 – 7:17 AM
    Samsung Spinpoint F1 HDDs: New Winners? It arrived later than expected, but it is also better than expected. Check out Samsung's new hard drive family, the Spinpoint F1, which is poised to take the pole position. Is it fast enough to win?
  • Samsung's Spinpoint P120 Hard Drive: Ready for the Big Leagues?
    April 27, 2005 – 1:04 PM
    Samsung's latest Spinpoint hard drive series surpasses the 70 MB/s data transfer rate threshold, runs quiet and was designed to offer other performance superlatives. Our tests show how well Samsung's obvious ambitions to outpace the competition fare when it comes to PC as well as more-demanding server applications.
  • CES 2007: Samsung launches UMPC with flash hard drive
    January 7, 2007 – 7:05 PM
    CES 2007: Samsung launches UMPC with flash hard drive One of the first opportunities to get your hands on a 1.8", NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD) drives may be Samsung's upgraded ultra mobile PC (UMPC).
  • CES 2007: Samsung develops double-sided LCD
    January 3, 2007 – 10:22 PM
    CES 2007: Samsung develops double-sided LCD Pre CES 2007 coverage - Samsung said that it has developed the first "truly" double-sided LCD. The device can simultaneously visualize different sets of data on the front and the back of the screen.

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