Western Digital WD5000KS Reviewed

Spinnerbait writes "Hothardware has a review of the Western Digital WD5000KS, a member of Western Digital's Caviar SE16 family. It's a 500GB SATA 3Gb/s drive, features a 16MB cache and a 7200 RPM spindle speed. WD's Raptor line, with their 10k RPM spindle speed, may have won the overall 3.5" desktop HDD performance crown, but they don't win any capacity battles. That's where the WD5000KS comes in. Up against Seagate's finest, the Barracuda 7200.10, the half-terabyte WD5000 holds strong performance metrics."

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Re:Oh, the pornography!

[Kjella]

Videos is what you want, just play it and you have both hands free. With pictures you need one hand on the mouse to click through the pictures.

You'd think someone would come up with a way to click through the pictures automatically, almost like a slideshow. Oh, wait they did and long before a computer could play video too. Obviously someone didn't live through the era of 286/386 machines, 14.4k modems and gif images. (Yes, I know some of you downloaded ASCII images on your 300 baud modem, spare me the "when I was young" routine)