Round-Up: Comparison Testing of 22 Hard Disk Drives

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Western Digital WD2500JD: The Old Guard

The WD2500JD was the first SATA drive that Western Digital brought to market. It uses three disk platters, each with about 90 GB of storage capacity. WD also includes 8 MB of onboard cache, along with a SATA I interface.

Today, while this drive is no longer one of the fastest performers, it still offers acceptable performance. Because this unit is built around first generation SATA, it doesn't support more advanced features such as command queuing.

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.