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Tom’s Winter 2008 Hard Drive Guide

By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 24 November 2008

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Transfer Diagrams - Seagate, WD

Page 1: Buying The Perfect Hard Drive
Page 2: Desktop HDDs: Differences
Page 3: Hitachi: Deskstar 7K1000 and Deskstar 7K1000.B
Page 4: Samsung: Spinpoint F
Page 5: Seagate: Barracuda 7200.11
Page 6: Western Digital: Mainstream and Low Power
Page 7: Western Digital: High Performance
Page 8: HDD Comparison Table
Page 9: Test Setup and Transfer Diagrams - Hitachi, Samsung
Page 10: Transfer Diagrams - Seagate, WD
Page 11: Throughput and Interface Performance
Page 12: Access Time and I/O Performance
Page 13: PCMark05, Power Requirements and Temperature
Page 14: Performance per Watt: Workstation I/Os
Page 15: Performance per Watt: Streaming Reads
Page 16: Conclusion and Recommendations

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