HDD, the long farewell As SSD prices have dropped over the past few years, the need for 7200-rpm notebook-sized drives has lessened.

The flash memory-based SanDisk G3 SSD offers a compelling alternative to a 7,200 RPM Hard Disk Drive (HDD) for many customers – including do-it-yourself enthusiasts, IT managers or anyone ...

The faster the spin, the faster the HDD’s performance. For example, a typical laptop drive spins at 5,400 rpm or 7,200 rpm, while some server-based drives can go as high as 15,000 rpm. With SSDs, on ...

The 7,200 RPM speed of the Travelstar 7K320 provides an improved overall experience, at the capacities users want and at a far lower cost than SSD.” ...

Seagate is done making 7200rpm 2.5-inch pure hard disk drives There's just not much call for the form factor with SSDs on the rise.

Thus a 5,400 RPM HDD can use the flash memory for speeding performance while providing as much as 30% higher storage capacity for a given number of active disk surfaces than a 7,200 RPM drive.

The result is a blistering-fast 80GB SSD boot drive, which Reid says runs seven times faster than his already speedy 7200 rpm HDD.

Hitachi GST Raises The 'Reliability' Bar For 7,200 RPM, 3.5-inch Enterprise Drives * Hitachi GST ships the world’s first 7,200 RPM, 3TB enterprise-class hard disk drive (HDD).

All that dough will get you a drive that “opens files up to twice as fast as a 7,200 RPM HDD,” according to SanDisk. Read speeds reach up to 220 megabytes per second while write speeds top out ...

Hitachi is now shipping its new 500GB Travelstar Z7K500 hard drive. This drive claims to be the industry's first 7,200 RPM, 7mm, one-disk, 500GB mobile hard drive. This 2.5-inch drive features a ...