Reviewed: 2.5" Notebook Hard Drives From Toshiba And Hitachi
With more than 100 MB/s throughput and 500GB of storage capacity for notebooks, Hitachi’s Travelstar 7K500 and the Toshiba MK5056GSY face the established Seagate Momentus 7200.4. Were the two newer drives worth waiting for? We benchmark them to find out.
Benchmark Results: Throughput, Streaming, And Interface Performance
Hitachi and Toshiba deliver the highest read transfer rates, reaching 108 and 107 MB/s. Seagate’s Momentus 7200.4 has a maximum of 101 MB/s, but it maintains better average and minimum results than Toshiba’s MK5056GSY.
Seagate and Toshiba change positions in the write throughput test.
The streaming reads test in Iometer confirms the results: 1. Hitachi, 2. Toshiba, 3. Seagate.
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