February 1998 / BYTE Hardware Lab Report

Storage Part 1: 15 Disks Cover More Data Than Ever The Power Behind the Storage Throne	The newest hard drives are high-speed, high-capacity marvels: better, cheaper, and able to pack more data into ever-smaller volumes. - by Russell Kay
Best Overall High-Capacity Disk Drives Disk Drive Performance	In the desktop group, holding 4 to 7 gigabytes, mostly EIDE or ATA drives, there's a big difference in what's available.
Bearing the Load Fluid Dynamic Bearing Motor On Top of the Motor	Last fall Seagate released its 7200-rpm, 9.1-GB Medalist Pro 9140, which features a fluid dynamic bearing motor. - by Michelle Campanale
Hard Drive Ratings Best Overall Desktop Drives (4-7 GB): Maxtor DiamondMax 1280 Best Overall Server-Class Drives (8-11 GB): Maxtor DiamondMax 2160 Best Overall High-Capacity Server Drives (18+ GB): IBM Ultrastar 18XP Maxtor DiamondMax 1280 Maxtor DaimondMax 2160 IBM Ultrastar 18XP
Details Big and Small in One The Big Guys Get Bigger	Big and Small in One: Western Digital's Enterprise WDE9100 is the biggest small drive in our tests -- small in physical terms, that is.
The Changing Face of Backup Backup Alternatives	As disk drives get larger and larger, answers to the questions of how to back up the data on them, and how to access that backed-up data when you need it, become more complex.
Test Methodology Disk Drive Performance	We measured throughput with two different tests. The MPC benchmark, which NSTL developed for the Multimedia PC Council in conjunction with Intel, measures data throughput for both random and sequential access.
High-Capacity Disk Drives Features High-Capacity Disk Drives Features
Storage Part 2: Infinite Space Denser and Denser Magnetoresistive Heads Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) Atomic Force Microscope: It's the Pits AFM: In the Pits A Whole Lotta Data Going On	Storage technologies keep advancing, and into some very strange places. - by Edmund X. DeJesus

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