Hard Disk Drives

Hard Disk Drives

Traditional hard disk drives still offer the most storage capacity for a rather affordable price. Combined with very acceptable reading and writing performance, hard disk drives are the primary source of data storage found in most PCs and laptops nowadays. If you're unsure which hard disk drive to buy, you might want to look for that drive that offers the lowest money/storage ratio.

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Hitachi unveils 2.5" 7mm & 9.5mm CinemaStar HDDs for AV (1)

Hitachi has announced its new family of CinemaStar 2.5" hard disks for set-top boxes such as DVRs, Satellite/Cable PVRs, including traditional and ultra-slim models. The family includes 7mm models for ultra-slim boxes and high capacity 9.5mm models, all featuring quiet acoustics and optimised for 24/7 recording, such as in a CCTV DVR.

• 16 May 12 23:41 by Seán Hard Disk Drives

Hybrid HDD Ultrabooks to attack pure-SSD Ultrabook market (3)

According to researchers at TrendFocus, a 128GB SSD still accounts for roughly 25% of the BOM (build of materials) cost of an Ultrabook. With the development of thin 7mm 2.5" HDDs, TrendFocus predicts that Ultrabook manufacturers will use a large capacity 7mm 2.5" HDD coupled with a small mSATA to run as a cache for the SSD, to undercut with pure SSD Ultrabooks.

• 15 May 12 18:15 by Seán Hard Disk Drives,Solid State (ssd)

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Eminent 2.5" eSATA/USB & 3.5" USB HDD enclosures review (1)

The nice thing with a HDD enclosure is that you can you choose what to put in. In this review we test two Eminent HDD enclosures against having its HDDs installed in the PC.

• 07 March 11 11:17 by Seán Hard Disk Drives

Samsung S2 Portable 3 1TB USB3 2.5" HDD review (7)

A pocketable USB3 hard disk, yet with 1TB capacity and a SuperSpeed USB3 connection. In this review, we benchmark it in USB2 & 3 modes and formatted in FAT32 & NTFS. We also test how it performs in the real world.

• 04 February 11 12:19 by Seán Hard Disk Drives

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