The 2.5" vs. 3.5" RAID Challenge
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Processors | |
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Socket 604 | Dual Intel Pentium 4 Xeon, 2.8 GHz,512 kB Cache, FSB533 |
System Components | |
DDR-SDRAM | 2x 512 MB PC3200 Samsung,ECC, Registered |
Motherboard | Asus PP-DLW, Rev. 1.03Intel E7505 Chipset |
Graphics Card | Matrox Millennium G450 AGP, 32 MB |
Hard Drives | System Drive: Western Digital WD1200BBTest Drives:4x Fujitsu MHT2060BS4x Western Digital Caviar RE WD1600SD |
Controller | I/O Benchmarks:Adaptec AHA-2410SA, 4-Port SATAData Transfer Benchmarks:Areca ARC-1120 |
Software | |
Intel Chipset | Intel Chipset Installation Utility 5.1.1.1002Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition Ver. 3.53 |
DirectX | 9.0b |
OS | Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition5.2.3790 |
Controller Drivers | 3Ware Software 9.1.5.2LSI Driver 6.43.2.32 |
Benchmarks | |
I/O Performance | IOMeter 2003.05.10Fileserver BenchmarkWebserver BenchmarkDatabase BenchmarkWorkstation BenchmarkThroughput Benchmark |
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If you look closely you will see that this review compared 5400rpm 2.5" drives with 7200rpm 3.5" drives.Reply
Which makes it completely useless and flawed. I seriously can't believe Tom's did that. Maybe if there had been 5400rpm 3.5" drives included, some useful information could be gleaned from the tests.
This entire article should be deleted just to save face, if not disk space. This article's very existence makes me embarrassed for Tom's Hardware. -
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This is ridiculous
the outside speed of the platter !!
I cannot believe it .. you wait one turn never mind where your data are located and at 7200rpm your platter may be 1 meter in diameter it is not going to change anything it will stl be one rouind trip
You will wait one turn ( 1/7200th of a second )
It ain't go faster nor slower mechanically
The heads are another story