500 GB Hard Disk Drives Roundup. Page 2

[05/03/2010 11:08 AM | Storage]
by Aleksey Meyev

Far not everyone out there needs enormous hard disk drives. Many users out there feel quite happy with smaller HDDs for their systems storing most of their data on external media. And quite a few users do not really have that much data to store anyway. We hope our roundup of 3.5-inch 500 GB HDDs will be helpful for these particular users.

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Seagate

Barracuda 7200.11: ST3500320AS, 500 GB

Barracuda 7200.12: ST3500418AS, 500 GB

Barracuda LP: ST3500412AS, 500 GB

We’ve got three drives from Seagate here. Two of them are “fast” HDDs with a spindle rotation speed of 7200 RPM that belong to different generations. The 7200.11 series model is based on two platters (with three active head/surface pairs) whereas the newer 7200.12 series model has only one platter. Each HDD has an impressive 32 megabytes of cache.

The third Seagate hails from the power-efficient Barracuda LP series which has joined the ranks along with the 7200.12 series. This HDD has 32 megabytes of cache and one platter rotating at 5900 RPM.

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