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jigalig   11-03-2009 at 09:55:17 PM

I have 2 hard drives the same size I will put win 7 on one I have checked the spec. and they are close which
one is faster thanks.

1/Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 3.0Gb/s 320-GB
2/Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAKS 320GB

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blackhawk1928   11-03-2009 at 10:01:01 PM

Well its easy to solve that problem.
Download HD TUNE
^Benchmark each hard drive, its a very simple and easy to use program. It will give you both hard drives AVG. Read speed.

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jigalig   11-04-2009 at 12:39:50 AM

I ran HD Tune but what make the most difference access time or burst rates.

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nukemaster   11-04-2009 at 01:51:18 AM

access time(how fast the drive can get from on place to the next, this helps allot when loading lots of files or as a drive gets fragments) followed by read/write speed(how fast can it read/write to and from the drive.). Burst only have an effect when you are reading or or writing very small files that would fit into the drives buffer.


Message edited by nukemaster on 11-04-2009 at 04:29:05 AM
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Bronze Storage badge cjl   11-04-2009 at 03:40:04 AM

Burst rates are pretty much irrelevant. Access times and average transfer rates are what you should look at.

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4745454b   11-04-2009 at 11:17:43 AM

So what was the answer? I'm willing to bet that the 7200.10 is faster then the green, but more or less equal with the blue depending on how much it got slowed down. The black should be faster then all of them.

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