Roundup of 2.5inch Laptop Hard Disks at Tomshardware
Tomshardware have a completed a review of 8 name brand 2.5 inch laptop hard disks. Ranging in size, all the way up to 160GB there is a whole spectrum of good disks on display.
All the drives are 5400RPM drives except for one. There is an even spread of ATA100 and SATA interfaces too. Comparisson of the disks shows the implementation of new technologies like perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) which help to get more information onto a single platter.
The Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 came out as the performance king in this test, outperforming all of the other drives. The Seagate Momentus 5400.3 manages to take the crown for the most capacity, even though it can’t match the speed of the Hitachi Travelstar offerings.
Poor Samsung comes out the loser in this test.