High-Capacity Business Hard Drives: Biggest Of The Bunch

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Drive Comparison Table And Test Setup

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Manufacturer Hitachi Samsung Seagate
Model Deskstar E7K1000 EcoGreen F2 Barracuda LP
Model Number HDE721010SLA330 HD103SI ST31000520AS
Form Factor 3.5" 3.5" 3.5"
Capacity 1,000 GB 1,000 GB 1,000 GB
Spindle Speed 7,200 RPM 5,400 RPM 5,900 RPM
Other Capacities 750 GB 250, 320, 500, 640, 750, 1,500 GB 1,500, 2,000 GB
Platters 3 2 2
Cache 32 MB 32 MB 32 MB
NCQ yes yes yes
Interface SATA/300 SATA/300 SATA/300
Operating Temperature 0-60°C 0-60°C 0-60°C
Specified Idle Power 5.2 W 4.4  W 3.0 W
Measured Idle Power 5.8 W 3.8 W 3.8 W
Operating Shock (2 ms, read) 70 G 70 G 70 G
Warranty 5 years 3 years 3 years
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Manufacturer Seagate Seagate Western Digital
Model Barracuda LP Barracuda LP WD RE4-GP
Model Number ST31500541AS ST32000542AS WD2002FYPS
Form Factor 3.5" 3.5" 3.5"
Capacity 1,500 GB 2,000 GB 2,000 GB
Spindle Speed 5,900 RPM 5,900 RPM 5,400 RPM
Other Capacities 1,000, 2000 GB 1,000, 1500 GB Row 5 - Cell 3
Platters 3 4 3
Cache 32 MB 32 MB 64 MB
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 5.5 W 5.5 W 3.7 W
Measured Idle Power 4.2 W 4.2 W 3.5 W
Operating Shock (2 ms, read) 70 G 70 G 65 G
Warranty 3 years 3 years 3 years

Test Setup

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System Hardware
Hardware Details
CPU Intel Core i7-920 (45nm, 2.66 GHz, 8MB L2 Cache)
Motherboard (Socket 1366) Supermicro X8SAX Revision: 1.1 Chipset: Intel X58 + ICH10R BIOS: 1.0B
RAM 2 GB DDR3-1333 Corsair CM3X1024-1333C9DHX
HDD Seagate NL35 400 GB ST3400832NS 7,200 RPM, SATA/150, 8 MB Cache
Power Supply OCZ EliteXstream 800WOCZ800EXS-EU
Benchmarks
Performance Measurements h2benchw 3.12PCMark Vantage 1.0
I/O Performance IOMeter 2006.07.27File server-Benchmark, Web server-Benchmark, Database-Benchmark, Workstation-BenchmarkStreaming ReadsStreaming Writes
System Software and Drivers
Driver Details
Operating System Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
Intel Chipset Chipset Installation Utility 9.1.0.1007
AMD Graphics Radeon 8.12
Intel Matrix Storage 8.7.0.1007