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Hard disk drives,
or HDD can be categorized into internal hard disk,
external hard drive, 3.5" desktop hard drive and 2.5" notebook hard
drives. With development of system buses, HDD interface for PC hard disk drives
has been changed from original IDE to faster ATA. The newest format
of ATA interface is Serial ATA, or SATA in abbreviation. SATA hard disk
drives have a burst data transfer speed comparable to SCSI hard drive that
has been typically used in computer servers. Hard drive capacities,
measured now in GB, are also increased constantly. The largest SATA hard disk
drives
now exceed TB in capacity. Considering price factor, 160GB hard drives,
which was huge couple years ago, have almost become smallest capacity
you want to buy in the market. |