This diagram shows an old PATA-style ... data on the drive and begin reading it. The hard drive industry introduced smaller platters, on-disk memory caches, and faster spindle speeds to counteract ...

I need some (console based) hard drive and memory benchmarks for Windows (2003) that are free. Leaning towards "real world" benchmarks use is great, but I understand that that is not 100% possible ...

While every component in a PC has a role to play, today, we are talking about RAM and Hard Drive. While RAM is often termed as Memory, Hard Drive is termed as Storage – and even with words apart ...