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2.5" HDD Galore: Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba

By Patrick Schmid published 24 January 2008

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Page 9 of 11:

I/O Performance

Page 1: The New Notebook Drives For 2008 Are Here
Page 2: Notebook Hard Drive Developments
Page 3: Samsung Spinpoint M6, HM320HI (320 GB - 5400 RPM)
Page 4: Seagate Momentus 5400.4 (250 GB - 5400 RPM)
Page 5: Toshiba MK1651GSY (160 GB - 7200 RPM)
Page 6: Test Setup
Page 7: Access Time
Page 8: Read Transfer Rates
Page 9: I/O Performance
Page 10: PCMark05 Windows XP Startup Performance
Page 11: Conclusion

I/O Performance

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1 Comment Comment from the forums

DO you have enlosure for this hard drive ? or the connecting cable usb to pc?
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