We test 3 harddrives from Western Digtal and Seagate. The two larger Barracuda and Caviar discs face the new and fast spinning, yet restricting when it comes to storage space, Raptor.
“The reason for the Raptor not crushing the two other drives in this test is it’s lower data density. While developing harddrives, manufacturers must compromise between high rotation speed, leading to lower seek times, and high data density, leading to more storage space and faster sequential reads and writes. The Raptor use a high rotation speed, but has low data density, hence the tiny storage space and the “slow” sequential reads and writes.”
Read the review here.
