Photograph: Marc SimonThe new number one drive on our internal hard drives chart is Seagate's Barracuda 7200.10 750GB. The first 3.5-inch drive to employ perpendicular magnetic recording technology, the 7200.10 offers the most storage you can get in a single drive and posted top-flight performance numbers. Also new this month: Maxtor's 500GB DiamondMax 11 (in fifth place on our internals chart), and Apricorn's well-designed EZ Bus DTS SATA (in second place among the externals). Notably missing: A 500GB internal unit from Seagate (it ranked sixth) and 500GB external drives from Western Digital (in tenth) and WiebeTech (in seventh).
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Top Internal and External Hard Drives From the August 2006 Issue of PC World Magazine
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