Hitachi's 500 GB DeskStar Monster

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Hardware
CPU Intel Pentium 4, 2.0 GHz256 kB L2 Cache (Willamette)
Motherboard Intel 845EBTIntel 845E ChipsetBIOS BT84520A.86A.0024.P10
RAM 256 MB DDR/PC2100, CL2.0Micron/Crucial
Controller i845E UltraDMA/100-Controller (ICH4)On-Board USB 2.0 (ICH4)On-Board FireWireSilicon Image Sil3114 SATA (SATA I)
Graphics card ATI Radeon SDRAM, 32 M
NIC 3COM 905TX PCI 100 Mb/s
OS Windows XP Professional 5.10.2600Service Pack 1
Benchmarks & Measurements
Performance measurements c't h2benchw 3.6
I/O-Performance IOMeter 2003.05.10
Drivers & Settings
Graphics driver 5.1.2001.0 (Windows XP Standard)
IDE driver Intel INF Drivers 5.02.1003
DirectX Version 9.0c
Display resolution 1024x768, 32 Bit, 85 Hz

Benchmark Results

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Data Transfer Performance

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.