The I/O performance of any of the three drives is not capable of matching up to other 5,400 RPM drives or to 7,200 RPM drives. Clearly, none of the three contenders was designed to deliver as many I/O operations per second as possible.
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Summary
- 500 GB Drives for High-End Notebooks
- Not All 2.5” Drives Are Created Equal
- Three Platters: Hitachi Travelstar 5K500, 500GB
- Two Platters: Hitachi Travelstar 5K320, 320GB
- Record Throughput: Samsung Spinpoint H6 HM500LI, 500GB
- Drive Comparison Table
- Benchmark Results: Data Transfer Diagrams
- Read And Write Transfer Rates
- Interface Bandwidth And Access Time
- Application Performance: PCMark05 Windows XP Startup And Write Performance
- I/O Performance
- Power Requirements
- Conclusion: 500 GB Notebook Drives are Still Unbalanced



