Reviews of Hard Drives

What we would really like to be incorporated in hybrid drives is the flash component becoming a much larger piece of the cake than the current 256MB in Momentus 5400 PSD, perhaps 2 to 4GB.

While Toshiba was the first to announce a 320GB hard disk for notebook PC’s, it’s Western Digital that has actually hit the market with a 320GB disk coming from it’s Scorpio series.

Once incorporated by notebook manufacturers in their systems, it would be exciting to see this hard drive in action.

Offering a high capacity, easily portable, and with a shelf life that other PC components should envy, Iomega's new 70GB Rev disks have plenty going for them. But with users' data growing at exponential rates, is the new size worth buying into? Or are hard drives, optical media, or tape still the way to go? We take a look.

As expected there were lots of items on sale the day after Christmas and one of them was this Maxtor 300GB hard drive. The regular retail price for this hard drive is about 200 bucks, and yesterday I purchased it for about 80 dollars after rebates. If you go to CompUSA.com and type in "Maxtor 300" you will see this drive for $79.99. But just did not want to get another internal hard drive; in fact, I wanted an external for my backup needs. So I bought one of those internal to external converter kits by Acomdata for $50 and I was ready to go for half the price of retail external drivers.

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We examine the Hitachi T7K250, Samsung's SP2504C, Western Digital's Caviar RE 320GB and Seagate's brand-spankin' new 7200.10 300GB -- all situated near the intersection of cost and capability. Which comes out on top to be named the best drive for your dollar?

"Today we're taking a look at one of Western Digital's latest hard drives to hit the market. The WD2500JS is a 250GB hard drive with a 7,200RPM spindle motor which supports the new SATA-II interface allowing for a theoretical maximum 300MB/s transfer speeds. Read on as take a close look at the drive and compare it against a high-performing SATA-150 drive to find out the performance differences between SATA and SATA-II."

"This review will be taking a look at Anthology Solutions' Yellow Machine P400T Terabyte Storage Appliance. That's right, a terabyte storage appliance. This may seem like a lot for the consumer or even SOHO level user, but if the data storage industry has shown us anything, its that you cannot have too much reliable storage space. Does the average user need a terabyte or more of storage? Probably not, but once you factor in use by a business or a power user who needs data available on multiple systems at once or is doing something very storage intensive, like editing video, a solution like this one starts making a great deal of sense. It houses up to four 3.5" hard drives but is much more than just an enclosure, it has an extensive feature set which enables it to do things that would normally be done on a data server, not just a storage device."

"The Samsung MP0804H has certainly gone through a lot and it shined in its tests. When used as an external unit, its faster than NAS units and has a lot more capacity than typical flash drives. As an internal drive, I felt an immediate rejuvenation in performance."

"There are so many reasons why having a portable hard drive makes sense, but finding the one that fits your needs - or your wallet - is not always a simple thing to do."