1.8" Hard Drives: Small is Beautiful

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Here you can see what we have mentioned earlier: any 1.8" drive is clearly inferior to any 2.5" model as soon as the system requires large amounts of data. This PCMark05 benchmark shows the average data transfer rate in MB/s when simulating the launch of Windows XP.

The same point is valid for data writes: the more that needs to be written, the more 1.8" hard drives fall behind.

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.

4 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Where can i find an enclosure that can read from this HD?
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  • On ebay, for around $10
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  • great article, this HDD type is new to me.. :)
    thanks
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  • Where did you hear "big is beautiful"? This author probably has a fat ass girlfriend!
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