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skora   08-11-2009 at 06:26:23 AM

I searched, and its just a mess of results, not relevant specifically to the HDD. But if I'm looking at the charts comparing HDDs for gaming, which specs should I be focused on to get the best performance?

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Bronze Storage badge r_manic   08-11-2009 at 11:32:42 AM

Anything that ends in "per second", and "throughput".

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Bronze Storage badge evongugg   08-11-2009 at 03:04:17 PM

Read/write performance and access time.
Check here:

Performance Charts Hard Drives

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/hard-drives,3.html

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skora   08-11-2009 at 09:11:00 PM

Thanks for the responses.

As 90% of the benchmarks end with /second, that doesn't help a lot.

For throughput, should I look for max, min, or avg? Again, this is to judge the best HDD for gaming. Is it dfferent for rendering/editing machines?

So the IOMeter benchmarks don't have any use for what I'm looking for?

And is the PCVantage Gaming benchmark worth using?

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