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A Faster, Denser Hard Drive Debuts

Boost in capacity and performance adds to appeal of perpendicular drives.

By Jon L. Jacobi, PCW Print   

New Drive Shows Its Mettle

A disk using perpendicular magnetic recording technology handily outperformed an earlier generation on our copying tests and kept a slim edge on other tests.

ProductDrive technologyTime in seconds to complete:
Copy files & folders Copy large fileFind fileSymantec Virus-Scan
Seagate 160GB Momentus 5400.3Perpendicular 290228132108
Seagate 120GB Momentus 5400.2Longitudinal340274136119
CHART NOTES: Both 5400-rpm, 2.5-inch drives had 8MB of buffer and used the ATA-100 interface. Shorter times are better. Bold denotes best score. Tests conducted by the PC World Test Center. For details on testing, click on this link: How We Test. All rights reserved.

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