Reviewed: 2.5" Notebook Hard Drives From Toshiba And Hitachi

Features
By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos
published

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: 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.

Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos