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o $159.99 o $165.99 The full-sized model stores media on a built-in hard drive, while the smaller iPod nano and iPod shuffle use flash memory. There are a few basic things you need to know when you want to purchase a new hard drive. First of all, it's important to understand the basic characteristics of all hard drives. They are based on one or more rotating platters coated with magnetic particles that serve to store bits of data. Heads, like the needles on old record players, take care of reading and writing data on both sides of each platter. Different interfaces are available to connect drives to a PC. Additional technologies, like buffer memory and command reorganization through a feature called NCQ (Native Command Queueing), influence performance. The basic concept has not changed over time, but the density of data on the fewest possible platters. This reduction in complexity generally yields lower power consumption, as well. The bundled software used for uploading music, photos and videos to the iPod is called iTunes. A Look Into the Hard Drive’s Future: Overview, market share, future technologies o Directron Discontinued versions include two generations of the full-sized iPod, all of which had monochrome screens (except for the iPod photo). In the consumer segment, external drives, mostly connected via USB 2.0, have grown tremendously in recent years. Prices have come down, and the drives have gotten easier to use, with better included backup software and most 2.5-inch drives being powered from the port. Like many digital audio players, iPods can serve as external data storage devices when connected to a computer. Drive makers have been talking about new technologies for many years, but so far PMR has continued to scale dramatically. Manufacturers typically can now store 320GB on a single 2.5-inch platter, which is why 640GB drives are a common size. A year from now, we may see that grow to about 500GB per platter, making 1TB 2.5-inch drives common and a three-platter, 1.5TB, 2.5-inch drive possible. In desktop 3.5-inch drives, we now commonly see 500GB per platter, with a four-platter drive reaching 2TB. This, too, should grow. * Among the vendors, there has been some consolidation among drive makers, with the market for drives effectively shrinking to five players: Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba (which acquired Fujitsu's hard drive business this year), Hitachi, and Samsung. Even this varies by market—Toshiba does not make desktop drives, while Seagate, Hitachi, and Fujitsu have dominated enterprise drives. Other vendors sell retail drives, but they buy the basic drives from one of these five and typically add their own software, case, and so on1. We compared the dated drive with the latest flagship model on our storage test system, but we also decided to copy the existing Windows XP installation onto the new drive. This provided direct performance comparison using SYSmark 2007. Finally, we installed Windows 7 and repeated the same tests.Although