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By azhito
 Nowadays, more and more users prefer a compact and inexpensive notebook to a desktop PC. There is a vast choice of notebooks of different types on the market, from simple laptops based on Intel Celeron processors, up to powerful mobile stations based on AMD 64-bit processors. An average laptop carries one hard drive of 20 to 120 GB; there are also two-HDD portable systems, but they are rare. The purpose of this article is to help to make a right choice from the whole variety of existing notebook hard disk drives which user can find on the market.
In terms of productivity, the most advanced position belongs to Seagate Momentus 7200.1 drives they show the smallest average seek time 10.5. On the other side, Hitachi states 10 ms as the average seek time for reading operations and 11 ms for writing operations for its Travelstar 7200 RPM drives. Therefore we can resume about the approximately equal performance for high-end drives from Seagate and Hitachi companies.
Having analyzing the characteristics stated by manufacturers (they can be found on the manufacturers web sites), |
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