Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 Terabyte Hard Drive

Read and Write Speed
 
When performing manual “file copy” benchmarks, the performance of the drive that the files are being copied from can directly and negatively affect the results of the drive they are being copied to. This is something that needs to be taken into consideration when benchmarking hard disks such as the Hitachi DeskStar 7K1000. Therefore, to test the read/write performance of each storage device a 2GB dummy file of both small and large files (jpeg,txt, .pdf etc) was used and the time taken for the file transfer was recorded.

The results below show how long each of the drives took to read and write a 2GB dummy file.

 
 
2GB File Transfer (read)
 
2GB File Transfer (write)
 
The Hitachi DeskStar really usurped the Seagate Barracuda here as is evident by the read and write charts above. For such a large hard drive the Hitachi DeskStar is blisteringly fast, making short work of transferring the 2GB dummy file.
 
Windows Bootup Time

Quite a simple and self explanatory test. We took each of the three disks, installed a fresh copy of Windows Vista SP1 on to them and measured the time each took to boot into the Windows desktop and display the Welcome page. To ensure that the tests were fair and that Windows has fully completed installing all devices, the results were recorded after three initial reboots.

 
 Vista startup Time
 
In all honesty we was expecting each of the both disks to come out with exactly the same results. However, as we can see from above, the Hitachi DeskStar 7K1000 managed to boot into Windows and display the welcome screen a full 3 seconds faster than the Seagate Barracuda 80GB.