tomshardware.com — It is estimated that a majority of desktop computers in the US use hard drives with capacities between 30 and 100 GB. While this might be sufficient for office use, your gigabytes will be eaten up quickly if you start working with photos, video and audio That's why modern multimedia computers are equipped with larger 250 to 400 GB hard drives.
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kannaJan 17, 2007
Tom's Hardware article alert. Marked as lame.
Closed AccountJan 17, 2007
Wow, I never realized how much people thought TH was biased..... I haven't seen any bias recently...any links to backup such claims?
teknotantJan 17, 2007
That is why SDD and hybrid drives are starting to make their move into the media.
pairanoydJan 17, 2007
In the address line of your browser add print.html to the end of the toms hardware URL and hit enter.You get the entire article on one page with no ads!
dashJan 17, 2007
Now I like a great review just like the next guy but DAMN does it need to be spanned out over 18 PAGES? Don't these guys know how short the attention span of a digg user is? Ad block Plus saves the day again...
m0nteJan 17, 2007
LACiE Is the way to go. i currently own 9 - 250 gig external drives [ and 3 - 250 acom data external drives]
Closed AccountJan 21, 2007
@manitobaxp98Again, you would see no increase in speed with striping RAM! Striping only works on mechanical hard drives, to make up for the vastly slower physical mechanism that is required to access the storage element on the platter. In solid state, the rows and columns are always accessible compared to the delay of disk rotation. Mirroring is just as pointless, you don't need to mirror RAM. Mirroring is to anticipate the eventual failure of the physical mechanism. Solid State cells have a MTBF rating hundreds of thousands of hours greater than hard drives. The only thing you have to watch for is some types of solid state cells have a fixed read/write state change lifespan. Which is in the many millions of flips, but still, finite.