One of the world’s largest producers of hard drives is giving up on 7200rpm hard drives for notebooks. Seagate will end production of 2.5 inch drives which spin at 7200 revolutions per minute ...

Science SSD vs. HDD: How low will hard drives go? Solid-state drives won't approach magnetic hard-disk drives in pricing anytime soon, if ever. Comparison shopping makes SSDs look like a luxury ...

Using the Micron 6500 ION 30.72TB QLC SSD and the Seagate Exos X22 22TB 7,200 RPM HDD for comparative analysis, the research emphasizes HDDs' power consumption efficiency, not necessarily their ...

The deskstop storage channel may be paving the way for a real pricing skirmish between hard disk drive (HDD) platforms and newer, more expensive Solid State Drive (SSD) components -- a battle that ...

Fujitsu might have been the first to introduce a 2.5" 7200rpm hard drive with 320GB capacity, but Hitachi is hot on their trail. Today, Hitachi announced ...

The flash memory-based SanDisk G3 SSD offers a compelling alternative to a 7,200 RPM Hard Disk Drive (HDD) for many customers – including do-it-yourself enthusiasts, IT managers or anyone ...

Moreover the cheapest 60 GB version can perform 35.000 random read operations per seconds, when old typical 7200rpm HDD could do only 75 to 100 operations. Loooaaaaddingggg times are finally over.

Available in both 60GB and 120GB versions, SanDisk’s new solid state drive (SSD) is capable of opening files at twice the speed of current 7200rpm hard drives, SanDisk says. The SanDisk G3 SSDs ...