Hitachi vs. Seagate 500 GB SATA Hard Drive Review - Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500 GB 16MB Serial ATA II - Feedback

 
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500 GB 16MB Serial ATA II
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Seagate
Category:
Hard Drive
Specifications:
SATA II - 500 GB - 3.5"
Hitachi vs. Seagate 500 GB SATA Hard Drive Review
Published by null - 03-2006

Given the rate of advancement in other areas of computing such as video cards, cpus and ram, it is pretty surprising that we still rely on the venerable hard drive for our storage needs. One would think that by now, the storage manufacturers would have discovered a way to reliably store information in something that doesn't have so many moving parts. It is because of this reliance on mechanical parts that harddrives have been, and for the foreseeable future are, the bottleneck in the system.