Sony StorStation LIB-D81/A4 200 GB 520 GB

Advantages: Fast, Larrge Capacity, Price
Disadvantages: Compatibility

...Features Out of the box it looks pretty much like any other Serial ATA drives, although you can tell it is a Maxtor drive (and not just because of the huge label with Maxtor written on it either). Here are the drives full specifications from Maxtor: Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 Hard disk drive Capacity: 200GB Form factor: 3.5” Interface: Serial ATA 150 Rotational speed: 7200Rpm Buffer size: 8MB cache DPS (Data Protection System) SPS system to resist shock Operating mechanical shock 2ms (G): 60 Non-operating: 300 Quoted average seek time: <= 9.3 ms Quoted average latency: 4.2 ms B per sector/block: 512 Logical CHS: 16,383/16/63 Hot plug capable Weight: 0.63 kg The drive comes with a legacy power connector to cater for most of us who don’t have serial-ATA compliant PSUs yet. Serial ATA is also hot... Read review

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Advantages: Very capacious, Good qaulity, Good value for money
Disadvantages: Not supported properly by most operating systems

...of the later versions of Windows. Failling to find another ATA driver I resigned to having only 130GB of space, after all it was cheap! The drive definately works, I can confirm that and it seems to robust and runs at respectable speeds. I am using it in my server right now to store media files for my 24/7 online radio station and thats going fine. I'd say this drive is great value for money, but unless you are a fully trained IT technician, don't buy it if you can ifnd a 130GB for less because you may find that you can only use that much of it anyway! Please note: I have rated the manual as unhelpfull because the OEM version didn't have one.... Read review

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Advantages: very fast, stable, read and wirte speeds
Disadvantages: not very many, low end of the market

...hard drive. I wanted a second one to do image editing on and some audio editing. I usually work with large video files, like movies for my studio, and also so that I could record TV with my TV card. This was by far the cheapest hard drive to buy, for the space reasons, and also by the fact that it was the fastest for the amount of money that I paid for it. Many people ask me what the hell I want with 200GB, but I tell them, I’m claustrophobic; I don’t like small/crowded space. ▼Little more information on Memory and space▼ Back in the 1960s and 70s, a megabyte of space on any component of computer was unheard of. Most computers only had a couple hundred bytes of space at most. But now in the 21st century, a single document takes up more space than that. This is why they have prefixes to all the space on our computer hard... Read review

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