Today Hitachi announced its entry into the next-generation 15,000 RPM landscape with the Ultrastar 15K147. Like other upcoming offerings, the 15K147 combines a svelte access time with 15K RPM spindle speeds and a flagship 147 gigabyte capacity. Unlike the competition, however, the Ultrastar spreads the data across five rather than four platters. Still, considering that
Oops, No Atlas
It unfortunately appears that we won’t be able to deliver on our promise to cover the big three new 15,000 RPM offerings by our (slightly stretched) deadline of the 29th. We sorely hoped to have the Atlas 15K II in the testbed before the holiday weekend- looks like that won’t happen. It’s a shame… if
A Leaderboard Change
The Maxtor MaXLine III‘s impressive performance coupled with its admirable acoustics makes it an easy choice as our new Desktop Leaderboard choice.
An Interesting Reversal
Seagate today announced that it was immediately backing all of its internal drives (notebook, ATA, and, of course, SCSI) purchased from June 1st onwards with a 5-year warranty. This reverses a trend where many ATA hard drives had their warranties trimmed down to one-year. The one-year warranty policy rolled out by manufacturers nearly two years
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