Big and Small in One:
Western Digital's Enterprise WDE9100 is the biggest small drive in our tests -- small in physical terms, that is. In the popular 3-1/2-inch, 1-inch-high form factor, this drive will be a convenient plug-in replacement to double the capacity of the 4.5-GB drives used in many server applications and RAID arrays.
The Big Guys Get Bigger:
Seagate's Elite 23 has the largest capacity of all the drives we tested, but technology marches on. Seagate has now announced a 47-GB big brother in the Elite series. There's a down side to such high capacity, of course: When a bigger drive goes down, you lose a lot more data. So,
we expect to see these drives used primarily in RAID applications.
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