form factors imply various differences in the actual hard drives that use them. Until the late 80s, there used to be 5.25" hard drives for high capacity applications, but the industry moved to smaller platter diameters and form factors for many reasons. First...

the cache memory won't be able to speed up the hard drive any more. It's quite obvious that fragmentation cannot be avoided, but it can be kept low by defragmenting your hard drive regularly. Depending on the amount of data you are moving on your hard drive,...

in that particular case, the sensor is built into the notebook. Moving it into the hard drive removes the necessity to run a service that orders the hard drive to park its heads in case of a drop. Seagate seems to have considered even more aspects in its attempt...

speed fails to live up to its predecessor - and that is not a good precedent to set for hard drives in general.. Once again we have a standard 3.5" desktop hard drive with a speed of 7,200 RPM and 16 MB of cache memory with a Serial ATA 2.5 interface with...

New Desktop Hard Drives: Speed Or Capacity?. 2tb hdd caviar. Today we're testing and dissecting Samsung’s Spinpoint F2, Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.12, and WD’s 2 TB Caviar Green. They all hold 500 GB of data per platter, but the similarities stop there....