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Test setup for this drive
- Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
- AMD Athlon 64 3700+ (San Diego)
- Asus 6800GT
- 74 GB WD Raptor
- LiteOn DVD-RW SOHW-1673S
- LiteOn DVD-RW SOHW-1693S
- 1GB (2x512MB) TWINX1024-3200XLPRO
For testing, some standard benchmarks will be used along with some real world situations. Software applications included in the benchmark testing will include: HDTach, HD Tune, and Windows Speed Test. For real world transfers I will clock the time it takes to create a 3 gig file, read a 3 gig file, and copy a 3 gig file.
higher is better
You can see here, with HD Tach, that the burst rate of this drive really pulls away from the other drives. This drive doesn't burst close to its theoretical limit, but it beats the other drives by quite a bit.
lower is better
Most of us would expect the Raptor drive to lead that pack as this chart indicates, but the SE16 drive didn't drag behind by too much. I would like to see some better performance here as this drive wasn't a great distance ahead of an older Maxtor drive.
higher is better
Higher is better when it comes to sustained average read, and we can see here that even though this drive sports 300GB/s, it doesn't perform any better than my current favorite and chart topper.
higher is better
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