Affordable and Reliable 80 and 160 GB Hard Drives

ExcelStor J360

Priced considerably under $60, the ExcelStor drive from China with 60 GB is an obvious low-cost model. Since that's the most important criteria for some users, we included the drive in our field of candidates.

Then again, the application benchmarks Business and Highend Disk Winbench 99 2.0 paint a less rosy picture - ExcelStor brings up the rear in both.

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ExcelStor J360
Capacity60 GB (alternatively 20, 30, 40 GB)
Rotational speed7,200 rpm
Cache2 MB
Drive motorFDB (fluid dynamic bearing)
InterfaceUltraATA/100
Seek time8.5 ms
Warranty period1 year

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.