Xbitlabs reviews 6 1 TB hard drives including:
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000
Hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000
Samsung SpinPoint F1
Seagate Barracuda 7100.11
Seagate Barracuda ES.2
Western Digital Caviar GP
In this article we are going to discuss 6 hard disk drives, each with 1TB storage capacity. We will talk about solutions from Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital.
Watching the never-stopping progress in the performance of central processors, graphics cards and other PC components, I sometimes wonder what component is the slowest to evolve these days. I guess it is the hard disk drive. Yes, the storage capacity of hard disks is getting higher and higher but it seems like the manufacturers are trying to engage the users into the race for gigabytes of storage not because they care so much about them. Rather, it is because increasing the capacity of the HDD has proved to be easier than increasing its performance...
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