Recent content by glaukopes

Yeah, my 7200.10 is very loud.

Are you sure? Both the Samsung and Western Digital 640GB drives are listed at $85 right now.

That's exactly how I'm interpreting it too. The platters have 334gb per platter areal density. The actual amount of gigabytes is not really the issue. The question is the density, because greater areal density typically means faster performance, quieter, less power, less heat, etc. When...

Then what does this mean?: "Max. 334GB Formatted Capacity per Disk" This comes directly from Samsung's 750gb "Features" section which you can find here: http://www.samsung.com/global/...ubtype=63&model_cd=248 Anandtech's preview of WD's 640gb...

What about the Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB? Doesn't it have 334GB platters and 32mb cache? Samsung also now has a 640GB drive with the 334GB platters and 16mb cache. So I'm curious who wins this three way: WD 640gb, 2x320gb platters, 16mb cache Samsung 640gb, 2x334gb platters, 16mb cache...