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PC Gamers Know It's What Inside That Counts

Overview Falcon Northwest has been a leader in the PC gaming world since it opened its doors in 1992. Falcon Northwest to offer gamers more than one option when choosing components, each of the company's offerings still has to be first rate. Falcon Northwest's Talon systems have been nearly 100-percent pre-configured with Hitachi's Deskstar 180GXP for some time. The Hitachi drives in those systems have had the lowest failure rate out of any hard drives Falcon carries by a significant margin.

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Publisher	Hitachi	File Format	HTML
Date Published	April 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Hard Drives

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