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Western Digital Scorpio 2.5” HDD: Better Late Than Never (page 4)

Category: Storage

by Andrey Kuznetcov

[ 04/06/2005 | 04:22 PM ]

Performance in Intel IOMeter WorkStation Pattern

With the help of a WorkStation pattern we imitated the intensive work of our testing participants in different applications.

Here we suggest taking a closer look at only one diagram showing the performance rating for each drive calculated according to the following formula:

Performance = Total I/O (queue=1)/1 + Total I/O (queue=2)/2 + Total I/O (queue=4)/4 + Total I/O (queue=8)/8 + Total I/O (queue=16)/16 + Total I/O (queue=32)/32

Our today’s main character, WD800VE, copes with this workload very well. It is just a little behind Seagate ST9100823A and is faster than all other hard disk drives with the same storage capacity.