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Drive Comparison Table

Half a Terabyte On Your Notebook
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Manufacturer Hitachi Hitachi Samsung
Family Travelstar 5K320 Travelstar 5K500 SpinPoint M6
Model Number HTS543232L9A300 HTS545050KTA300 HM500LI
Capacity 320GB 500GB 500GB
Rotational Speed (RPM) 5400 5400 5400
Available Capacities 80, 120, 160, 250GB 400 GB 400 GB
Platters 2 3 3
Interface SATA 3 Gb/s SATA 3 Gb/s SATA 3 Gb/s
Cache (MB) 8 8 8
NCQ yes yes yes
Warranty 5 years 5 years 3 years
Height 9.5mm 12.5mm 9.5mm

Test Setup

System Hardware
Processors 2x Intel Xeon 3.6 GHz, FSB800, 1 MB L2 Cache
Platform Asus NCL-DS, Intel E7520 Chipset, BIOS 1005
RAM Corsair CM72DD512AR-400 (DDR2-400 ECC, reg.)
2x 512 MB, CL3-3-3-10 Timings
System Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar WD1200JB
120GB, 7,200 RPM, 8MB Cache, UltraATA/100
Mass Storage Controller Intel 82801EB UltraATA/100 Controller (ICH5)
Promise SATA 300TX4
Promise FastTrak TX4310
Driver 2.06.1.310
Networking Broadcom BCM5721 On-Board Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Graphics Subsystem Integrated ATI RageXL, 8MB
System Software
Performance Measurements c’t h2benchw 3.6
PCMark05 V1.01
I/O Performance IOMeter 2003.05.10
Fileserver-Benchmark
Webserver-Benchmark
Database-Benchmark
Workstation-Benchmark
System Software & Drivers
OS Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition,
Service Pack 1
Platform Driver Intel Chipset Installation Utility 7.0.0.1025
Graphics Driver Default Windows Graphics Driver