Performance in Emulating Patterns

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First, let’s simulate a workstation. This pattern features short request queues and a high percentage of writes.

All in all, all the drives handle this task confidently enough: the difference in performance of different samples of the SpinPoint P80 series, without the latest specimens of the 60GB and 120GB models, is only 3%. As usual, a big cache buffer plays no positive role for IOMeter. Fortunately, it doesn’t play a negative role here, either.

What’s curious, a drive on the UltraATA/100 controller took the first place, outperforming itself on the UltraATA/133 controller. It means that Samsung has no special optimizations for the ATA/133 interface and you can use the new drives with ATA/100 mainboards without worrying about losing any performance.

The writes percentage is lower and the load became higher, but there’re no changes in this server pattern – the gaps between the participants of the test have even got smaller.

There are no write operations here and the previous SpinPoint generation suddenly gains the upper hand. The new revision of the SP0612N and the SP1213N cheered up and took positions in the middle of the diagram, while the ATA/100 interface lost its ground somewhat. Still, there’s no great difference in the results – Samsung’s HDDs have traditionally been strong in IOMeter.

On the contrary, Samsung was never brilliant in WinBench. Is it different with the new series?