500GB Per Platter: Three Next-Gen 7,200 RPM Hard Drives

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Comparison Table And Test Setup

Comparison Table

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Header Cell - Column 0 Samsung Western Digital Western Digital
Model Spinpoint F3 WD Caviar Black WD RE4
Model Number HD502HJ WD2001FASS WD2003FYYS
Form Factor 3.5" 3.5" 3.5"
Capacity 500GB 2,000GB 2,000GB
Spindle Speed 7,200 RPM 7,200 RPM 7,200 RPM
Other Capacities 1,000GB 500GB, 640GB, 750GB, 1,000GB -
Platters 1 4 4
Cache 16MB 64MB 64MB
NCQ Yes Yes Yes
Interface SATA/300 SATA/300 SATA/300
Operating Temperature 0-60°C 0-60°C 5-55°C
Specified Idle Power 5W 8.2W 8.2W
Measure Idle Power 4.1W 6.4W 6.4W
Operating Shock (2 ms, read) 70 G 30 G 30 G
Warranty 3 Years 5 Years 5 Years

Test Setup

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System Hardware
Hardware Details
CPU Intel Core i7-920 (45nm, 2.66 GHz, 8MB L3 Cache)
Motherboard (Socket 1366) Supermicro X8SAX Revision: 1.1, Chipset: Intel X58 + ICH10R, BIOS: 1.0B
RAM 3 x 1GB DDR3-1333 Corsair CM3X1024-1333C9DHX
HDD Seagate NL35 400GB ST3400832NS, 7,200 RPM, SATA/150, 8MB Cache
Power Supply OCZ EliteXstream 800W OCZ800EXS-EU
Benchmarks
Performance Measurements h2benchw 3.12PCMark Vantage 1.0
I/O Performance IOMeter 2006.07.27Fileserver-Benchmark, Webserver-Benchmark, Database-Benchmark, Workstation-Benchmark, Streaming Reads, Streaming Writes
System Software and Drivers
Driver Details
Operating System Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
Intel Chipset Chipset Installation Utility 9.1.0.1007
AMD Graphics Catalyst Control Center 8.12
Intel Matrix Storage 8.7.0.1007