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Tom's Hardware: Comparison Testing of 22 Hard Disk Drives

tomshardware.com — The jockeying for position among hard drive makers never seems to end, particularly in the areas of drive capacity and speed. As a result, hard disks have nearly doubled their capabilities over the last few years, in contrast to the performance of CPUs and systems as a whole.

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  • tolkachi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tom's Hardware gives up the acoustical test? This is an important factor in many decisions, even if the difference is a mere 3dB.
  • pcgeek101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I have never trusted Toms hardware. There rate there advertisers better then there non advertisers."

    Agreed. I've gotten the same vibe from them ... I normally goto PCstats.com or Anandtech.com for real information these days. OH! and techreport.com is awesome
  • egbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.storagereview.com/comparison.html
  • Tomato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I haven't seen something like this in a while... definately interesting and helpful, kinda. ;)
  • vdub12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0[H] Is cool to.
  • JHawk24821, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Same here 'meyerj'. I use a 74GB Raptor as my OS drive with about 410 GB on the other 2 drives in the system, and another 240 GB on the two externals.

    The second and third 74 GB Raptors are coming for Xmas. Can anyone say Raid level 5 w/ 3 x 74 GB Raptors?
  • vdub12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have never trusted Toms hardware. There rate there advertisers better then there non advertisers.
  • pcgeek101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The second and third 74 GB Raptors are coming for Xmas. Can anyone say Raid level 5 w/ 3 x 74 GB Raptors?"

    Well granted, that's a pretty cool setup, and I'm not here to bash your raptors, but honestly, they are quite over-rated and overpriced. I purchased a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB drive, and not only is it large, but it is *fast*. Granted, I'm comparing this to previously using PATA drives, but I've seen some straight up benchmarks from Anandtech that show the DiamondMax 10 series performing on-par with the Raptors, for much less cost as well. For those on the bleeding edge of speed though, they've gotta be great drives ...
  • vermin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"As a result, hard disks have nearly doubled their capabilities over the last few years, in contrast to the performance of CPUs and systems as a whole."

    HD transfer rates have basically stayed the same for how many years now? SATA did almost nothing for boosting transfer rates. Honestly, who cares if it's 200gb or 400gb, I'd much rather have a FAST hard drive.
  • wingo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0just sort out the one with longest warranty, and you get THE best!
  • meyerj88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah!!!! Raptor still the fastest. Glad I got mine. The small storage doesn't bother me (74 gig version). I just use the raptor for my main drive with windows, my games, and apps while I store all my media on my 320 gig Western Digital SATA drive.
  • ant1532, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what? can someone tell me what his top 5 hardrives were? I cant get through the article
  • theGrue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No Samsung? Bah.
  • Qopax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0just read the conclusion ant
  • Amigaice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I been doing video editing on 7200Rpm drives for about 3 or 4 years now if not longer. I have no problem with them. Any one will tell you Video Editing will tax a Hard drive more then anything. The bottle neck is not the Hard Drive. As long as it's not Fraged 7200Rpms is just fine.
  • vdub12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0THG sucks.
  • BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Uber Geekness. THG rocks.

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