SATA II to the Power of 3.0Gb/sec: Three Drives Reviewed
by Purav Sanghani on June 25, 2005 7:06 PM EST- Posted in
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WinBench 99 - Transfer Rate Test
We ran WinBench 99's Disk Transfer Rate Test to get a better measure of just how well the transfer rates are over the course of the entire disk. The Disk Transfer Rate test reads from the media in a linear fashion from the beginning (1st track) to the end (last track). The numbers below represent the ceiling and floor of the transfer rates throughout the test.
Samsungs HD160JJ holds its own during Winbench 99's Transfer Rate Test. The drive never drops below about 57.4MB/sec while the T7K250 has a 50% drop in transfer rate when it reaches the end of the test. The WD1600JS does a little better than the Hitachi drive but not as well as the HD160JJ's close to constant transfer rates throughout the read. Since the last track is on the inside of the platter, transfer rates are lower because of the proximity of each bit compared to those on the outer tracks. Because this test is synthetic, we have not put much emphasis on the results.
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bersl2 - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
And I need to learn to refresh.bersl2 - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
---quote---Our first benchmark shows Western Digital's WD1600JS coming in at second best in pure hard disk performance at 719 IO operations per second while the 74GB 15000RPM Raptor still tops the charts.
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Um... did I miss something? Aren't Raptors 10k in RPMs?
mechBgon - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
Typo on page 3 referring to a 15000rpm Ratpro. They wish :D...errr, 10th post!
cryptonomicon - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
eh, a few minutes ago, the review showed up but when i clicky, it goes to search review panel.GhandiInstinct - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
No graphs on some pages still.GhandiInstinct - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
Haha!PuravSanghani - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
When our publisher is away, with HTML we get to play!Sorry about that guys...everything should be good now. Do let us know if you see anything odd though.
Thanks for stopping by!
Purav
pastorjay - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
If I remember right, Wes said that their HTML coder was gone and they were doing all their own coding.Krk3561 - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
graphs wont work for me eitherChiefNutz - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
Never mind.