Bigger is better in the disk drive world. But you might be surprised at how much better.
Robin Harris wrote a great piece on why high capacity drives offer much more than just more space for your stuff. The bigger the drive, the faster it works. Significantly faster.
So much so that Robin believes a bigger hard drive is the best upgrade besides RAM you can give your PC.
But not as fast as SSD, right? Wrong.
According to Robin, A laptop PC with a Seagate Momentus 500GB drive will work faster with large files than an Intel X-25M G2 SSD.
That’s more speed and six times the capacity for a drive that costs less.
Sometimes it pays to read the fine print.
That’s a faster drive with 6 times the capacity for less money.
Sometimes it pays to read the fine print.

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When I’m in the cereal isle at the grocery store, I’m OK with letting marketing have its way with me. Sell me something “New!”, even if it’s really just a repackaging of the same old stuff.