Performance in IOMark

We are going to get rid of obsolete benchmarking suites, so we recorded the data-transfer graphs of the drives with our own IOMark tool rather than with WinBench:

• Fujitsu MHZ 2BH
• Hitachi Travelstar 5K320
• Samsung SpinPoint M6S
• Seagate Momentus 5400.5
• Toshiba MKxx52GSX
• Western Digital Scorpio Blue

The following diagram compares the read speed at the beginning and end of the partition created on each drive:

The Samsung seems to have the highest recording density of all the drives, but that’s not so. If you look at the graphs, you can see that some of them have small slumps at the beginning, which is reflected in the diagram. The speed at the end of the partition is the true indication of what drives have higher recording density: these are the HDDs from Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital.