Hard Drive purchasing FAQ

(v0.1 10/18/04)

Giga-what?

Here are some specifications (units) you may run into while shopping for hard drives:

• Capacity (GB): the amount of data a drive can store, measured in billions of bytes. Typical sizes are 40-300GB (nb: see DriveShowsUpSmaller).
• Spindle speed (rpm): the speed at which a drive's internal platters spin, in revolutions per minute. Typical speeds are 5400-15,000rpm.

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