1.8" Hard Drives Hit 100 GB

Technical Data

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Manufacturer Toshiba Toshiba Toshiba
Product MK4009GAL MK8009GAH MK1011GAH
Row 1 - Cell 0 HDD1682 HDD1784 HDD1789
Capacity 40 GB 80 GB 100 GB
Rotational Speed 4200 RPM 4200 RPM 4200 RPM
Additional Capacities 80 40 Row 4 - Cell 3
Platters 1 2 2
Interface UltraATA/100 UltraATA/100 UltraATA/100
Cache (MB) 8 MB 8 MB 8 MB
NCQ - - -
Weight 48 g 59 g 59 g
Warranty 1 year 1 year 1 year

Test Setup

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System Hardware
Processor(s) 2x Intel Xeon Processor (Nocona core)3.6 GHz, FSB800, 1 MB L2 Cache
Platform Asus NCL-DS (Socket 604)Intel E7520 Chipset, BIOS 1005
RAM Corsair CM72DD512AR-400 (DDR2-400 ECC, reg.)2x 512 MB, CL3-3-3-10 Timings
System Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar WD1200JB120 GB, 7,200 RPM, 8 MB Cache, UltraATA/100
Mass Storage Conroller(s) Intel 82801EB UltraATA/100 Controller (ICH5)Promise SATA 300TX4Promise FastTrak TX4310Driver 2.06.1.310
Networking Broadcom BCM5721 On-Board Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Graphics Card On-Board GraphicsATI RageXL, 8 MB
System Hardware
Performance-Messungen c’t h2benchw 3.6
PCMark05 V1.01
I/O Performance IOMeter 2003.05.10Fileserver-BenchmarkWebserver-BenchmarkDatabase-BenchmarkWorkstation-Benchmark
System Software & Drivers
OS Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Service Pack 1
Platform Driver Intel Chipset Installation Utility 7.0.0.1025
Graphics Driver Default Windows Graphics Driver
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.