Laptop Storage: 640GB And 500GB Drives From WD And Fujitsu

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Manufacturer Fujitsu Western Digital
Model MJA2500CH Scorpio Blue WD6400BEVT
Form Factor 2.5" (9.5 mm) 2.5" (9.5 mm)
Capacity 500GB 640GB
Spindle Speed 5,400 RPM 5,400 RPM
Other Capacities 80, 250 gigabytes 80, 120, 160, 250, 320, 400, 750, 1000 gigabytes
Platters 2 2
Cache 8MB 8MB
NCQ Yes Yes
Interface SATA/300 SATA/300
operating Temperature 5-55°C 0-60°C
Specified Idle Power 0.6W 0.85W
Measured Idle Power 0.7W 0.7W
Operating Shock (2 ms, read) 350 G not specified
Warranty 3 years 3 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: 1.0, 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
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