The HD501LJ is a part of Samsung’s T166 series of hard drives. It’s a 500 GB, 7200 rpm drive that can be used in desktops or media center PCs. The drive we received had 16 MB buffer memory and supported the SATA II interface, which enables it to achieve up to 3 Gbps throughput. Two highlights of the drives are drives are `Noise Guard’ and `Silentseek’ technologies,which help the drive in considerably reducing its noise level.
We tested the HDD on an AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core machine with 1GB of …

More storage in lesser space is what this hard disk drive will, and that too with good performance and at a great price. Look like a new era of a high-capacity drives is just round the corner
With Deskstar 7K1000, Hitachi offers a hard disk drive with a whopping storage capacity of 1TB. So now you can have higher capacity NAS boxes with sleek designs. New high capacity file servers could be built out of these. It could even be used in disk-based backup appliances. This drive supports SATA …