Photograph: Marc SimonGigantic, cheap, and fast are flattering adjectives for a hard drive--and they perfectly describe Samsung's SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ 500GB internal drive, which earned our Best Buy distinction. We also tested two 750GB drives: a Seagate unit with an 8MB cache, and a faster CMS Products drive with a 16MB cache. CMS Products does not manufacture drives; its 750GB offering is a repackaged Seagate model that comes with software for transferring data from another drive and creating a bootable disc. CMS Products' 500GB drive also comes with the software; it is a repackaged Western Digital drive, though not the same Western Digital model that outranked it on our chart.
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