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Ultra-Small Hard Disk Drives: Does It Make Sense? (page 4)

Category: Storage

by Aleksey Meyev

[ 08/29/2007 | 12:56 PM ]

Testbed and Methods

For our tests we used the following applications:

• FC-Test version 1.0;
• FC-Test version 2.0;
• Intel IOMeter version 2003.02.15.

We used two versions of our FC-Test benchmark on purpose. We would like to ease the transition to the new FC-Test version by offering you the opportunity to compare the results of the previously tested solutions with the results of the new ones.

• Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz CPU;
• 512MB DDR2 SDRAM working at 533MHz;
• ASUS P5WD Premium mainboard;
• Samsung SP0411N system hard drive;
• Windows XP Professional SP2 OS.

Since this device has no analogues so far, and it wouldn’t be absolutely fair and correct to compare it against solutions of larger form-factor, we decided to compare it against a contemporary flash drive of identical storage capacity. We decided on the Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB that we have already tested before in our article called Roundup of USB Flash Drives with 4GB+ Storage Capacity. It is not the fastest flash drive, more of a mainstream solution, but it boasts identical storage capacity as the Seagate USB Pocket Hard Drive: 8GB.