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
- Storage
Real World Tests - File System Tasks
Synthetic benchmarks are not always the best gauge in measuring the "real" performance of hardware which is why we have incorporated a few real world tests in our storage reviews. One of our tests, the file system performance test, measures the drive's ability to handle file zip, unzip, and copy operations. This is a great measure of how one drive compares to another and we have put together a group of tasks which most of us typically use.
1. File Zip Test - We take a 300MB file and measure the time it takes for our test bed to compress it to ZIP format on our test drive. We then run the test again with 300 1MB files to see how the drive performs when working with multiple files.
2. File Unzip Test - Using the same methodology as the File Zip Test, we take a ZIP file of a single 300MB file as well as a ZIP file of 300 1MB files and measure the time it takes to uncompress each ZIP successfully.
3. File Copy Test - We measure how long it takes for the system with our test drive to copy a single 300MB file as well as 300 1MB files to a separate folder on the hard drive.
Take a look at the results...
Our results for the file system task benchmarks did not really favor any of the SATA300 drives, but rather scattered the units across the charts. These tests show how each drive handles the various tasks of day to day file system operations.
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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.