PC Components Storage HDDs Should You Be Looking For A Hard Drive Upgrade? Features By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 19 August 2009 Page 11 of 12: Drive Efficiency And System Power Consumption Page 1: A Hard Drive Upgrade: Is Now The Time? Page 2: The Test System: Pentium 4 660 On Asus' P5GDC-V Page 3: Hard Drives: Samsung P120 And F2 EcoGreen Page 4: Drive Comparison Table & Test Systems Page 5: Drive Performance: Access Time And I/O Performance Page 6: Drive Performance: Throughput And Interface Bandwidth Page 7: Drive Performance: PCMark Vantage Page 8: Transfer Diagrams, Surface Temperature, Windows XP Boot Time Page 9: System Performance: SYSmark 2007 Preview Page 10: Drive Power Consumption Page 11: Drive Efficiency And System Power Consumption Page 12: Conclusion Drive Efficiency And System Power ConsumptionDrive EfficiencySystem Idle Power ConsumptionStay on the Cutting EdgeJoin the experts who read Tom's Hardware for the inside track on enthusiast PC tech news — and have for over 25 years. We'll send breaking news and in-depth reviews of CPUs, GPUs, AI, maker hardware and more straight to your inbox.Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Current page: Drive Efficiency And System Power Consumption Prev Page Drive Power Consumption Next Page Conclusion Patrick Schmid and Achim RoosSocial Links Navigation More about hddsWD Gold 24TB HDD review: The highest capacity hard drive you can buy right nowDouble up on bulk storage: Save $180 when you buy two 14TB WD Red Pro NAS drivesLatestAMD Strix Point engineering sample underwhelms in early Geekbench 6 resultsSee more latest ► Most PopularThe five best Intel CPUs of all time: Chipzilla's rise and fall and riseHands-on with Corsair's 2500D Airflow case: Roomy at the back, for rear-connector motherboard cables120mm AIO Roundup: Testing Be Quiet, Corsair, Cooler Master, and Enermax modelsHands-on with InWin's F5 PC Case: Back-connector motherboard support and wood front panelsThe five best AMD CPUs of all time: From old-school Athlon to brand-new RyzenHands-on with Be Quiet’s Dark Base Pro 901: Decibel dampenerThis is the fastest SSD we've ever tested — Phison E26 Max14um 2TB performance previewHands-On: Cooler Master's NCore 100 Max case stands tall and handles large GPUsI built a PC With MSI's Project Zero Motherboard: Moving all the ports to the back for a cleaner, quicker build with better airflowSurging on Smartphones, Folding Screen Adoption on Laptops Will Take Years to Go MainstreamTesting GPUs with AMD FSR3 and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora — 16 graphics cards and hundreds of benchmarks
