Energy-Saving Hard Drives

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Application Performance

Page 1: Energy-Efficient Hard Drives Compared
Page 2: Saving Power on Hard Drives
Page 3: Hitachi Deskstar P7K500
Page 4: Western Digital GreenPower Family
Page 5: WD7500AACS aka Caviar GP Green Power
Page 6: Benchmarks and Settings
Page 7: Benchmarks, Continued
Page 8: I/O Performance
Page 9: Application Performance
Page 10: Power Consumption
Page 11: Conclusion

Application Performance

The WD GreenPower drives provide only 80% of the application performance other 7,200 RPM desktop drives show; the reduced spindle speed is obviously a disadvantage here. However, the P7K500 cannot deliver better file writing performance in PCMark05’s HDD benchmark.