Laptop Buyers Guide: Hard Drive Storage — Size matters

Posted by admin on June 9th, 2008 at 09:56pm

Most notebooks use 2.5” sized hard drives, which are smaller in capacity than desktop hard drives. At this time, the largest 2.5” hard drives just coming onto the market were 320 gigabytes. However, for most people, hard drives of 120-160 GB are large enough. The Laptop Buyers Guide thinks it wise to buy as much space as you can afford as the size of operating systems and software is always expanding. This is especially true if you plan on using the laptop for music and digital photos. One new option included in top-priced notebooks is solid-state storage; that is, hard drives that use the same flash memory chip technology that used in a USB thumb drive or camera memory card. These hard drives can provide significantly better battery life and reliability, but they are extraordinarily expensive. As a result, if you get a notebook with one of these drives, you’ll have to accept a much smaller capacity in the interest of price – usually either 32GB or 64GB. This is VERY new and VERY expensive option.

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