Enterprise Storage: Two 2.5" 600 GB Hard Drives Tested
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The latest 2.5” hard drive generation ships with SAS 6Gb/s and delivers up to 600 GB of storage space, narrowing the gap with much larger 3.5" disks. Today we're comparing the latest 2.5" drives from Seagate and Toshiba to see if they're faster, too.
Test Setup, Comparison Table, And Throughput Diagrams
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System Hardware | |
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Hardware | Details |
CPU | Intel Core i7-920 (45 nm, 2.66 GHz, 8 MB Shared L3 cache) |
Motherboard (Socket 1366) | Supermicro X8SAX, Revision: 1.0, Chipset: Intel X58 + ICH10R, BIOS: 1.0B |
RAM | 3 x 1 GB DDR3-1333 Corsair CM3X1024-1333C9DHX |
HDD | Seagate NL35, 400 GB, ST3400832NS, 7 200 RPM, SATA 1.5Gb/s, 8 MB cache |
Power Supply | OCZ EliteXstream 800W, OCZ800EXS-EU |
Benchmark | |
Performance Measurements | h2benchw 3.12PCMark Vantage 1.0 |
I/O Performance | IOMeter 2006.07.27Fileserver-BenchmarkWebserver-BenchmarkDatabase-BenchmarkWorkstation-BenchmarkStreaming ReadsStreaming Writes |
System Software & Drivers | |
Driver | Details |
Operating System | Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 |
Intel Chipset Drivers | Chipset Installation Utility 9.1.0.1007 |
AMD Graphics | Radeon 8.12 |
Intel Matrix Storage | 8.7.0.1007 |
Comparison Table
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Manufacturer | Seagate | Toshiba |
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Model | Savvio 10K.4 | MBF2600RC Series |
Model number | ST9600204SS | MBF2600RC |
Form Factor | 2.5" | 2.5" |
Capacity | 600 GB | 600 GB |
Spindle Speed | 10 000 RPM | 10 000 RPM |
Other Capacities | 450 GB | 300 GB, 450 GB |
Platters | 3 | 3 |
Cache | 16 MB | 16 MB |
TCQ/NCQ | Yes | Yes |
Interface | SAS 6Gb/s | SAS 6Gb/s |
Surface Temperature | 60 | 54 |
Specified Operating Temperature | 5-55°C | 0-55°C |
Specified Idle Power | 4.6 W | 4.5 W |
Measured Idle Power | 4.9 W | 3.5 W |
Operating Shock (2 ms, read) | 40 G | 100 G |
Warranty | 5 years | 5 years |
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