Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750 GB SATA Hard Drive
Benchmarks - SiSoft, PCMark and File Transfer
Published: 7th August 2006 | Source: Seagate | Price: |
Here I was using the latest version of SiSoft Sandra's HDD benchmarking section. Once again tests were run three times for accuracy and averaged out.
I have found SiSoft Sandra to be pretty accurate in the past and the results show the speed of this drive nicely.
Here you can see the same pattern emerging. Obviously the RAID drive is ahead of the other two, but the Seagate is clearly ahead in the Drive Index Test. The Random Access test shows it as coming out equal with the Hitachi 7K160. Very impressive indeed.
PC Mark 05 HDD test Suite
PC Mark 05 has a test suite that Futuremark claim bears out real-life performance of a PC. In the HDD test there are five sections, all with different everyday uses. As before I ran the suite three times on each drive for accuracy.
PC Mark 05 HDD test Suite
PC Mark 05 has a test suite that Futuremark claim bears out real-life performance of a PC. In the HDD test there are five sections, all with different everyday uses. As before I ran the suite three times on each drive for accuracy.
Impressively enough the Seagate beats both the Hitachi 160 and the RAID 0 array out in 3 out of 5 of the test suite tests. It seems to be slightly down in general usage tests, but not by a big margin at all. This is hugely impressive considering the size of this mammoth drive.
Manual file Transfer
For this test I took a 1,91GB (randomly selected it has to be said) folder of High Definition Movie files. I transferred them from the OS drive to the drive in question. Again, I repeated this three times for each drive to ensure a good result. This is just a small test to see how the Seagate 7200.10 performs in every-day general usage that an average user would perform.
Manual file Transfer
For this test I took a 1,91GB (randomly selected it has to be said) folder of High Definition Movie files. I transferred them from the OS drive to the drive in question. Again, I repeated this three times for each drive to ensure a good result. This is just a small test to see how the Seagate 7200.10 performs in every-day general usage that an average user would perform.
The Seagate 7200.10 is one par with the RAID 0 drive as far as transferring files is concerned. Once again very impressive. The perpendicular recording technology really shows through in writing data to the HDD.
Most Recent Comments
yes and its also sata II
ay from the picture in the link.... im not very familiar with sata but that looks ide?
ay from the picture in the link.... im not very familiar with sata but that looks ide?
do all mobo support it?
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Originally Posted by name='limqareb'
do all mobo support it?
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your right the one in the pic is the IDE Version but there is also the SATA II Version.
All mobos support it even if it is sata 2 and the mobo is only sata 1 but int that case it lacks the features of sata 2
All mobos support it even if it is sata 2 and the mobo is only sata 1 but int that case it lacks the features of sata 2
yeah all tho i cannot really see any major bennifits of sata II compared to sata I
NCQ is one of the best achievements sata 2 has 
someone wana explain what NCQ is?
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Originally Posted by name='Dave'
someone wana explain what NCQ is?
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okk well i just googled NCQ hard drive technology and it seems to be when
NCQ technology allows drives to prioritize a PC's data requests.
look at this you don't need to turn the page
cheers bal! repped u cos that was interesting
yeah i think it deserves some reps as well it was very interesting well deserved
well deservedthnks guys
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