PC Hard Drives That Pack More Power for Less Dough

Technical Data

Manufacturer

Hitachi

Samsung

Series

7K160

SpinPoint T133 Series

Model

HDS721616PLA380

HD400LJ

Capacity

160

400 GB

Rotation Speed

7200 RPM

7200 RPM

Other Capacities

80 GB

320, 300, 250 GB

Platter

1

1 to 4

Cache

8

8 MB

NCQ

yes

yes

Interface

SATA/300

SATA/300

Warranty

3 years

5 years

Test Setup

System Hardware

Processor(s)

2x Intel Xeon Processor (Nocona core)

3.6 GHz, FSB800, 1 MB L2 Cache

Platform

Asus NCL-DS (Socket 604)

Intel E7520 Chipset, BIOS 1005

RAM

Corsair CM72DD512AR-400 (DDR2-400 ECC, reg.)

2x 512 MB, CL3-3-3-10 Timings

System Hard Drive

Western Digital Caviar WD1200JB

120 GB, 7,200 rpm, 8 MB Cache, UltraATA/100

Mass Storage Controller(s)

Intel 82801EB UltraATA/100 Controller (ICH5)

Silicon Image Sil3124, PCI-X

Networking

Broadcom BCM5721 On-Board Gigabit Ethernet NIC

Graphics Card

On-Board Graphics

ATI RageXL, 8 MBSystem Hardware

Performance-

c’t h2benchw 3.6

I/O Performance

IOMeter 2003.05.10

Fileserver-Benchmark

Webserver-Benchmark

Database-Benchmark

Workstation-BenchmarkSystem Software & Drivers

OS

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Service Pack 1

Platform Driver

Intel Chipset Installation Utility 7.0.0.1025

Graphics Driver

Default Windows Graphics Driver

Benchmark Results

Data Transfer Diagrams