3TB hard drives square off aginst everything else

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Submission + - 3TB hard drives square off aginst everything else (techreport.com)

Submitted by crookedvulture on Monday March 14, 2011 @05:48PM

crookedvulture writes: Last week, Western Digital announced its intention to buy rival drive maker Hitachi. Interestingly, those are the only two companies with 3TB hard drives available for sale. The Tech Report takes a closer look at how the two models compare with each other and over 30 different hard drives and SSDs. The resulting data paints a detailed picture of the storage landscape and is worth skimming for anyone curious about how spindle speeds and flash memory impact performance, power consumption, and noise.

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