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For the benchmarks, the test rig is my standard HDD test center. There is nothing over the top here.
- Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
- AMD64 X2 4200+
- 2x512 Corsair XMS Pro Series with the flashy lights
- Gforce 6800GT
- Silverstone Zeus 500 watt PSU
- 2 - 74GB Raptors in a RAID0 Configuration.
- Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2
- Water Cooling.
As with our previous hard drive reviews, the benchmarking will come from various software applications: HD Tach 3 RW, SiSoftware Sandra 2007, FC-Test (thanks X-bit), PCMark 05, Everest Ultimate Edition and a new addition, Iometer. I have opted to omit Winbench 99 because the results were very similar to the NEWER software mentioned. All our benchmarking software is available online so you can try yourself.
Up until this test, the fastest burst speed recording of a single drive belonged to the WD500KS pumping out a whopping 192.37MB/s. It got smoked! As for average read speed, however, the drive performed at the low end of the scale shooting out only 51.2MB/s. The Deskstar also takes the cheese hat in the Random Access times for a single drive (not 10,000 RPM).
Sandra's benchmarks proved more of the same. The Deskstar drive simply outperforms the offerings from other manufacturers in buffered write speed, but only quietly does so in random write and is middle of the road in sequential write. Read results are very much similar.
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