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Five Years of PC Storage Performance Compared

Posted by timothy on from the professor-it-seems-to-be-getting-cheaper dept.

theraindog writes "PC storage has come a long way in the last few years. Perpendicular recording tech has fueled climbing capacities, 10k-RPM spindle speeds have migrated from SCSI to Serial ATA, Native Command Queuing has made mechanical drives smarter, and a burgeoning SSD market looks set to fundamentally change the industry. The Tech Report has taken a look back at the last four and a half years of PC storage solutions, probing the capacity and performance of a whopping 70 different notebook and desktop hard drives, SSDs, and exotic RAM disks. There's a lot of test data to digest, but the overall trends are easy to spot, potentially foretelling the future of PC storage."

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  1. Great Technology? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If this technology is sooo great then why do disk drives die suddenly after 3 years of use?

  2. shit!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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