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A Look Into the Hard Drive’s Future: Overview, market share, future technologies Parallel Processing: Single, Dual, Quad Hard Drives: An exploration of RAID performance benefits o Other World Computing There are a few basic things you need to know when you want to purchase a new hard drive could theoretically provide a bit more performance for the new system. We grabbed an older system and replaced the installed 500GB drive with a brand new 2TB disk to test this theory out. As of July 2006, the lineup consists of the 5th generation iPod, with a video player; the iPod nano, with a color screen; and the iPod shuffle. * * Higher performance The hardware of a computer is infrequently changed, in comparison with software and data, which are "soft" in the sense that they are readily created, modified or erased on the computer. Understanding Hard Drive Performance Should your drive be at least several years old, you can expect to get several benefits from a new drive: Like many digital audio players, iPods can serve as external data storage devices when connected to a computer. The interfaces that connect drives are evolving as well. For enterprise drives, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is moving to a new 6-Gbps standard this year. And for external drives, while I expect USB 2.0 to still be dominant along some eSata and FireWire drives. USB 3.0 seems poised to replace it, bringing with it much faster connections. However, I don't expect to see many drives supporting that for a while. It needs chipset support on the client PC, and that isn't yet formally in either AMD or Intel's roadmaps. o $189.00 The real-life performance difference between a hard drive generation and the generation that follows it usually isn’t large enough to justify a replacement. However, there are more aspects to consider. We took a three year old Core 2 Duo desktop PC and installed a similarly-aged Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 drive. We then took Hitachi’s latest desktop drive, the Deskstar 7K2000, and used it as a drop-in replacement for the older 500GB