The Internal Storage Articles
- Samsung Adds Capacity to Fast-and-Quiet T133 Series
- Seagate's Half-A-TeraByte Hard Drive Comes at a Price
- New Toshiba SATA Drives Lack Performance Increase
- Fast and Furious: New 7200 mobile drives from Hitachi And Seagate
- The WD Caviar SE16 400 GB Gets Ready to Face The World
- Round-Up: Comparison Testing of 22 Hard Disk Drives
- Speedy Notebook Storage with Seagate's latest Momentus Drive
- Hitachi's 500 GB DeskStar Monster
- Small or Smaller? Ultraportable Hard Disks
- A New Toshiba 100 GB Notebook Drive at 5,400 RPM
SYSmark 2004 SE Application Benchmark
12:52 PM - February 6, 2006 by
Patrick Schmid
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: wd1500ad, raptor, xtends, performance, lead
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Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: wd1500ad, raptor, xtends, performance, lead
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SYSmark 2004 SE Application Benchmark

In order to show the Raptor's advantage in everyday work with your computer, we decided to compare it to our RAID 0 setup using the application benchmark suite SYSmark 2004 SE. This program runs various popular application and simulates actual user input in order to measure performance. It's quite amazing to see that the new Raptor easily beats the RAID 0 array here.
Temperature Measurement

Although the new Raptor spins considerably faster that its competitors, the WD1500 did not really get warmer than the 7,200 RPM drives. This is impressive proof of the advances that have been made in reducing friction and increasing the efficiency of heat dissipation.
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