Dual-platter HDDs have always had an ambiguous standing. They are not remembered as “the world’s first to achieve the capacity of so many gigabytes” but still enjoy well-deserved popularity. It is dual-platter drives that used to have the lowest data storage cost per gigabyte. They have only been outdone recently after the considerable price cut on 1-terabyte models. You can also expect very good performance from them: each of the five HDDs included into this review is based on full-size 320GB platters whereas there can be drives with lower recoding density among 500GB and 750GB models. Well, it is going to be interesting to compare them!
640GB HDD roundup
Posted on Tuesday, March 10 2009 @ 6:24 CET by Thomas De MaesschalckX-bit Labs has written a comparison of five 640GB hard drives, two from Seagate and three from Western Digital. You can read it over here.
