LabsPATA hard disks
Seagate's 500GB Barracuda 7200.10 disk was the best PATA disk in our last hard disk Labs (Shopper 233). It had the best performance of all the PATA disks here when writing large files and reading small files. Sadly, it was the second-slowest PATA disk at writing small files. Western Digital's Caviar SE16 500GB has similar performance but was more consistent, making it the better buy. SPECIFICATIONS:
Capacity: 500GB Formatted capacity (NTFS): 465GB Price per gigabyte: £0.16 Interface: UltraDMA 100 Power connector: Molex Spindle speed: 7,200rpm Cache: 16MB Quoted seek time: 8.9ms HD Tach access time: 14.6ms Platters: 3 Heads: 6 Bearing technology: Fluid dynamic Noise level when idle: 37dB(A)
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