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Slowly but surely, hard drives with 4 KB sectors are replacing the "legacy" 512 byte sector size. By January 2011, all drive vendors will have made this transition. Buyers of new PCs are safe, but there are still a few performance pitfalls to note...
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4 KB sectors are replacing 512 byte sector size in the hard drive space. Buyers of new PCs are safe, but there are still a few performance pitfalls. The introduction of hard drives that work with a sector capacity of 4 KB instead of the conventional 51...
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Remember when 500GB was the most you could get from a notebook drive? It seems like most vendors have made the transition to 640GB. Western Digital even has its own 750GB model that fits within the 9.5 mm z-height. So, which of these drives is the best...
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expertreviews.co.uk Updated: 2017-03-01 09:16:51
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Toshiba's MK6465GSX is a 640GB internal laptop hard disk. This puts it amongst the largest disks which fit in a standard 9.5mm drive bay; bigger disk are available but they won't fit every laptop. As with all modern 2.5in hard disks, you'll need an int...
Toshiba's 640GB internal laptop hard disk is slow at copying files and a touch too expensive...
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Toshiba is the first manufacturer to deliver a 2.5in laptop hard drive that packs more than 500GB of storage. Its new MK6465GSX sports 640GB on two platters, and while we are aware that the Western Digital Scorpio Blue and Seagate Momentus 5400.7 are a...
The £113 price of the 640GB Toshiba is quite steep and that seems like a hefty premium when you consider that a 500GB Toshiba MK5055GSX will set you back just £68. We’re not talking about the sort of money that will break the bank, but it&...
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With impending financial doom and gloom on the horizon, everyone's looking for ways to save money, which means that some will want to upgrade their laptops rather than replace them. And at less than £90, this 400GB 2.5in hard disk would appear to be co...
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itreviews.com Updated: 2017-03-01 09:16:51
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Bigger portable drives are available, in both senses of the word, but the tiny footprint, 400GB of storage and noise-free operation are salient selling points here. Toshiba - Libra MK4058GSX price Buy Toshiba Libra MK4058GSX securely online at a barga...
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Slowly but surely, hard drives with 4 KB sectors are replacing the...
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Remember when 500GB was the most you could get from a notebook drive? It seems like most vendors have made the transition to 640GB. Western...
These four new drives arrived with a bang, not because any particular model is dramatically superior, but because all four are clearly better than their 500GB predecessors. They’re faster in almost all benchmarks, and they even require less power to op...
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There are a few advantages that speak for 12.5 mm height in the 2.5” form factor. These drives are no longer handicapped by slower spindle speeds or outdated data densities. The latest Toshiba 1TB drive, the MK1059GSM, proved that it can beat the in-house 9.5 mm competitor, the MK6465GSX, on data transfer rates. Tests performed with comparable WD hard drives delivered similar results. In our particular case, the 12.5 mm Toshiba...
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xbitlabs.com Updated: 2017-03-01 09:16:51
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Half a year ago we welcomed early 2.5-inch hard disk drives with a capacity of 500 gigabytes and now every manufacturer offers such products. A delay with the introduction of a new series would allow the opponents to rake in all the profits.It is in hu...
Now it’s time to sum up all the results and see what HDD is better overall. If you need maximum performance, you may be interested in two models: Western Digital Scorpio Blue and Seagate Momentus 7200.4. The former is somewhat better for databases o...
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tomshardware.com Updated: 2017-03-01 09:16:51
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MK3252GSX provides very solid performance at up to 65 MB/s. The application benchmark results prove that the new drive is a good choice as a system drive, with results being in the upper areas of our charts. Access time and I/O benchmark results are only...
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