Shattering The Half Terabyte Mark : 500 GB Hard Drive Shootout : Roundup
Added to the directory: Thu, 02 Mar, 2006. Source: GamePC.
Quote:Now that manufacturing techniques on large-capacity (100 GB+) platters have been refined over the course of a year, every major hard drive manufacturer is pushing towards 500 GB for 2006. Not only have prices dropped on first-generation 500 GB hard drive releases to much more tolerable levels, but the two companies who've lagged behind on 500 GB hard drive releases (Maxtor and Western Digital) began shipping their 500 GB models within two weeks of each other. With renewed competition in the 7,200 RPM hard drive market and a standardized interface to work with, we decided to grab 500 GB drives from each manufacturer for a direct comparison. Let's see what these 3.5" inch half-terabyte monsters are capable of.
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