Testbed and Methods

The following testing utilities were used:

• WinBench 99 2.0
• FC-Test 1.0
• PCMark04
• IOMeter 2003.02.15

Testbed configuration:

• Albatron PX865PE Pro mainboard
• Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz CPU
• IBM DTLA-307015 hard disk drive, 15GB
• Radeon 7000 32MB graphics card
• 256MB DDR SDRAM
• Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4

The tests were performed with the generic OS drivers. The drives were formatted in FAT32 and NTFS as one partition with the default cluster size. In some cases mentioned specifically we used 32GB partitions formatted in FAT32 and NTFS with the default cluster size, too.

The operating characteristics of the drives will be compared with those of two earlier tested products, Seagate 100GB ATA and Hitachi 7K60 60GB, which too have a spindle rotation speed of 7200rpm and an 8MB buffer. Check out the table below for the detailed technical characteristics of the HDDs.:

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