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Seagate ST1 1-Inch Hard Disk Drive Review (page 3)

Category: Storage

by Andrey Kuznetcov

[ 12/07/2004 | 07:10 PM ]

Performance in AIDA32

With the help of a special option in AIDA32 program we managed to draw linear read and linear write graphs, as well as measure the average access time.

Linear Read Speed

Linear Write Speed

Average Access Time

The screenshots above indicate that the average access time of Seagate ST1 5GB HDD is 25msec, and the measured read and write speeds appeared about the same: both graphs look very similar, actually. We can now state that read speed results appeared very similar to those obtained during FC-Test, which once again proves our conclusions to be true. However, the just obtained write speed results appeared much higher than what the FC-Test had revealed. Here we see exactly the difference between synthetic benchmarks and those measuring real performance of the tested solution.