Reviewed: 2.5" Notebook Hard Drives From Toshiba And Hitachi
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Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos
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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.
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Benchmark Results: Access Time And I/O Performance
All three drives have similar access times.
WD has been strong in I/O operations per second (IOPS), and the 7,200 RPM drives cannot beat the Scorpio drives. However, notebook drives are typically not optimized for database scenarios.
The same applies to the following I/O tests.
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