I was wonderig what's the difference between 7.2k and 5.4k rpm. As far as time it takes to transfer, and what not. a friend of mine told me that the only major difference is when you do massive datas ...

Seagate has been producing hard drives for data storage in computer systems for a long time now. It has made both 5400 rpm and 7200 rpm HDDs for much of that time. The benefit of the 5400 rpm drive ...

The hard drive in my 2005 iMac died. It is a 250 GB 7200 RPM Western Digital. I went to Fry's the other day and bought what I thought was a 7200 WD 1.5TB drive, but come to find out that it is one of ...

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 that they too have a quick lil’-drive, the ...

The standard HDD that comes with your PS3 is 5400 rpm -- not bad, but not the best on the market. We've stumbled across a write-up detailing the addition of a different hard drive, running at 7200 rpm ...

Seagate Technology announced that they are going to discontinue making 7,200 RPM 2.5-inch HDDs later in 2013. While 7,200 RPM is the predominant rotation speed in 3.5-inch HDDs used for desktop and ...

Western Digital has made some changes to how it brands its WD Red Plus hard drive family after taking heat for its decision to mislabel its hard drive speeds earlier this year. At the time, individual ...

Seagate today announced that it's bumping the platter rotation speed in all of its flagship Barracuda desktop hard drives from 5400 rpm to 7200 rpm. The move to 7200 rpm across the board for ...

Speaking of the world's HDD makersSeagate and Western Digital are two strongFor mobile, Toshiba strongly has a monopoly state for the 1.8 inch model. Seagate, one of these two biggest headlines, out ...

When it comes time to buy your next high-performance laptop, chances are good that it will feature a solid state drive (SSD). But what if you’d prefer to have a high-speed, high-capacity traditional ...