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Seagate 750 GB Barracuda Enters The Big League

By Jason Zushman

published 29 June 2006

Page 13 of 14:

I/O Performance

Page 1: 750 And 500 GB Drives By Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital
Page 2: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750 GB
Page 3: Maxtor DiamondMax 11 500 GB
Page 4: Western Digital Caviar WD5000KS 500 GB
Page 5: Technical Data
Page 6: Data Transfer Diagrams
Page 7: Access Time
Page 8: Interface Bandwidth
Page 9: Read Transfer Performance
Page 10: Write Transfer Performance
Page 11: Surface Temperature
Page 12: Application Performance
Page 13: I/O Performance
Page 14: Conclusion

I/O Performance

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