Fastest IDE Hard Drive Ever: IBM Deskstar 75GXP

Data Transfer Performance

Within the first two gigabytes, the DTLA drive is able to provide a read data transfer rate of over 35 MBytes/s. At 50% of the drive capacity, it is still approximately 28 MBytes/s. It is interesting to see that the write performance is significantly less. The drive seems to be using either a slowing write verification system, or it does not use a write cache.

Basically, you find the same results in Ziff Davis' WinBench 99 Disc Inspection Test. As you can see, the DTLA drive is able to outperform its competitors clearly.

Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.