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Mega Roundup 2: Twenty Two Hard Disk Drives with 120GB Storage Capacity (page 12)

Category: Storage

by Alexey Volkov , Nikita Nikolaichev

[ 05/09/2004 | 10:05 AM ]

Let’s now examine the FAT32 results in two integral tests: Business Disk Winmark and High-End Disk Winmark.

Two Maxtor 6Y120P0 drives on 60GB and 80GB platters both show the best results in High-End Disk Winmark. The Samsung SP1312C is again among the leaders – stability is a sign of class?

The WD1200JB/60 won the Business Disk Winmark test, making up for the lack of Western Digital’s drives in the upper part of the table. The Hitachi IC35L120AVV207-1 looks appealing, too.

Well, we won’t sing again the well-known tune about the influence of the cache size on results in WinBench.

Now, let’s deal with NTFS:

The Maxtor 6Y120P0 on 80GB platters suddenly fell down to the sixth position, but the other Maxtor, with the SATA interface, substituted it. Interestingly, the Samsung SP1213C couldn’t hold its third place, yielding it to the Hitachi IC35L120AVV207-1.

Now, the same tests, but on a capacity of 32GB.

The reduction of the disk size in FAT32 didn’t practically affect the results. Only the Samsung SP1213C lost two positions and found itself on the fifth place. The Maxtor drives with an 8 MB buffer have no rivals in High-End Disk Winmark, while WD drives rule in Business Disk Winmark.

Like in the previous case, there are no surprises. Drives from Maxtor cap the table, while the Samsung SP1213C regained one position…