Seagate has been producing hard drives for data storage in computer systems for a long time now. It has made both 5400 rpm and 7200 rpm HDDs for much of that time. The benefit of the 5400 rpm drive ...

The hard drive in my 2005 iMac died. It is a 250 GB 7200 RPM Western Digital. I went to Fry's the other day and bought what I thought was a 7200 WD 1.5TB drive, but come to find out that it is one of ...

There are two main types of hard disk drive (HDD) rotation speeds: 5400 rpm (revolutions per minute) and 7200 rpm. Since the data transfer speed and power consumption change depending on the number of ...

Seagate Technology announced that they are going to discontinue making 7,200 RPM 2.5-inch HDDs later in 2013. While 7,200 RPM is the predominant rotation speed in 3.5-inch HDDs used for desktop and ...

Seagate today announced that it's bumping the platter rotation speed in all of its flagship Barracuda desktop hard drives from 5400 rpm to 7200 rpm. The move to 7200 rpm across the board for ...

is firewire fast enough to take advantage of a 7200 RPM hard drive? 120 GB 5400 RPM external hard drives are generally only $20 more than 80 GB 7200 RPM external hard drives. if there isn't going to ...

Fujitsu might have been the first to introduce a 2.5″ 7200rpm hard drive with 320GB capacity, but Hitachi is hot on their trail. Today, Hitachi announced that they too have a quick lil’-drive, the ...

Seagate currently have their GoFlex external drives using the 1TB platter technology, but they feature 5400 RPM and are not as fast as the usual 7200 RPM drives. But, with 7200 RPM drives, there's ...

When it comes time to buy your next high-performance laptop, chances are good that it will feature a solid state drive (SSD). But what if you’d prefer to have a high-speed, high-capacity traditional ...

The standard HDD that comes with your PS3 is 5400 rpm -- not bad, but not the best on the market. We've stumbled across a write-up detailing the addition of a different hard drive, running at 7200 rpm ...