PC Components Storage HDDs Should You Be Looking For A Hard Drive Upgrade? Features By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 19 August 2009 Page 5 of 12: Drive Performance: Access Time And I/O Performance Page 1: A Hard Drive Upgrade: Is Now The Time? Page 2: The Test System: Pentium 4 660 On Asus' P5GDC-V Page 3: Hard Drives: Samsung P120 And F2 EcoGreen Page 4: Drive Comparison Table & Test Systems Page 5: Drive Performance: Access Time And I/O Performance Page 6: Drive Performance: Throughput And Interface Bandwidth Page 7: Drive Performance: PCMark Vantage Page 8: Transfer Diagrams, Surface Temperature, Windows XP Boot Time Page 9: System Performance: SYSmark 2007 Preview Page 10: Drive Power Consumption Page 11: Drive Efficiency And System Power Consumption Page 12: Conclusion Drive Performance: Access Time And I/O PerformanceI/O PerformanceStay On the Cutting Edge: Get the Tom's Hardware NewsletterGet Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox.Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Current page: Drive Performance: Access Time And I/O Performance Prev Page Drive Comparison Table & Test Systems Next Page Drive Performance: Throughput And Interface Bandwidth TOPICS asus Hitachi Samsung Surface western digital Seagate Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos More about hdds Toshiba says Europe doesn't need 24TB HDDs, witholds beefy models from region 'World's First' encrypted 26TB hard disk debuts with diskAshur DT3 and DT2 models Latest Chinese chipmaker readies 128-core, 512-thread CPU with AVX-512 and 16-channel DDR5-5600 support See more latest Most Popular AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Faceoff Wi-Fi 6E versus Wi-Fi 7: Which type of router is a better buy? Hands-on with Lian Li's Lancool 217 PC case: High airflow, wood accents, no RGB SteelSeries QCK Performance Series mousepad hands-on: pick your flavor MacBook Air vs. MacBook Pro: The Pro is better in nearly every way, but the Air might be the better choice Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB vs RTX 4060 Ti 16GB: Blackwell GB206 takes on Ada AD106 Nvidia RTX 5070 vs RTX 5060 Ti 16GB — less VRAM but much better performance Ubuntu 25.04 launches with host of new features Should you buy a used graphics card? 12 Horrifying Windows Self-Destruct Keys You Can Hit By Accident
