Serial ATA Is Here: Seagate Barracuda ATA V and Five of the Latest Controllers Reviewed
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Test Setup
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Test System | |
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Processor | Intel Pentium 4, 2.0 GHz256 kB L2-Cache (Willamette) |
Motherboard | Intel D845EBT, Intel 845E chipsetMSI KT4 Ultra, VIA KT400 chipset |
RAM | 256 MB DDR/PC2100, CL2, Infineon |
IDE Controller | i845E UltraDMA/100 controller (ICH4)KT400E UltraDMA/133 controller (VT8235) |
Display Adapter | NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400 |
Network Card | 3COM 905TX PCI 100 MBit |
Operating System | Windows XP Pro 5.10.2600Service Pack 1 |
Benchmarks and Tests | |
Office Applications | ZD WinBench 99 - Business Disk Winmark 1.2c't h2benchw |
High-End Applications | ZD WinBench 99 - High-End Disk Winmark 1.2 |
Performance Measurements | HD Tach 2.61, c't h2benchw |
I/O performance | Intel I/O meter |
Drivers and Settings | |
Graphics Driver | NVIDIA reference driver 29.42 |
Drivers | Intel Application Accelerator 2.3VIA Hyperion 4in1 4.45Promise driver 1.00.0.14HighPoint 1.22s3Ware driver 7.5.3 |
DirectX Version | 9 |
Resolution | 1024x768, 16 bit, 85 Hz refresh |
Benchmark Results, Barracuda ATA V
We carried out all measurements except the burst transfer rate with the Promise SATA150 TX2.
Disk Access Time
Data Transfer Performance
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