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Finally, even though all three drives present support 6Gbps SAS, this Ultrastar was the only contender to take advantage of the higher speed limit, at least based on burst speeds. Perhaps the fact that it had four times the cache memory as the Seagates...
We did not compare HDDs of different form-factor in this review directly, but the performance of the 2.5-inch models seems to be quite comparable to that of their full-size counterparts. Moreover, the 2.5-inchers are faster than 3.5-inch drives at...
Conclusion We included several additional hard drives in the benchmark charts to provide some points of reference for our review candidates. Obviously, the latest hard drives deliver considerably higher performance than their predecessors. One...