New Enterprise Hard Drives: 6 Gb/s SAS And 200 MB/s

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Comparison Table

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Manufacturer Fujitsu Fujitsu Hitachi
Model MBD2 RC series MBE2 RC series Ultrastar C10K300
Model Number MBD2300RC MBE2147RC HUC103030CSS600
Form Factor 2.5" 2.5" 2.5"
Capacity 300GB 147GB 300GB
Spindle Speed 10,000 RPM 15,000 RPM 10,000 RPM
Other Capacities 147GB 73.5GB 147GB
Platters 2 2 2
Cache 16MB 16MB 64MB
TCQ/NCQ Yes Yes Yes
Interface SAS/600 SAS/600 SAS/600
Surface Temperature 57°C 58°C 56°C
Specified Operating Temperature 0-55°C 0-55°C 5-55°C
Specified idle Power 3.4W 4.1W 3.4W
Measured idle Power 3.5W 4.2W 13.4W
Operating Shock (2 ms, read) 100 G (100 ms) 100 G (100 ms) 60 G
Warranty 5 years 5 years 5 years

               

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Manufacturer Seagate Seagate Seagate
Model Constellation Constellation Savvio 10K.3
Model number ST9500530NS ST9500430SS ST9300603SS
Form Factor 2.5" 2.5" 2.5"
Capacity 500GB 500GB 300GB
Spindle Speed 7,200 RPM 7,200 RPM 10,000 RPM
Other Capacities 160GB 160GB 146GB
Platters 3 3 2
Cache 32MB 16MB 16MB
TCQ/NCQ Yes Yes Yes
Interface SAS/600 SAS/600 SAS/600
Surface Temperature 47°C 49°C 58°C
Specified Operating Temperature 5-55°C 5-55°C 5-55°C
Specified Idle Power 2.6W 2.9W 3.5W
Measured Idle Power 3.0W 5.1W 5.9W
Operating Shock (2 ms, read) 70 G 70 G 70G
Warranty 5 years 5 years 5 years

                  

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Manufacturer Seagate Seagate Seagate
Model Savvio 15K.2 Cheetah NS.2 Cheetah 15K.7
Model Number ST9146852SS ST3600002SS ST3600057SS
Form Factor 2.5" 3.5" 3.5"
Capacity 146GB 600GB 600GB
Spindle Speed 15,000 RPM 10,000 RPM 15,000 RPM
Other Capacities 73GB 300GB, 450GB 300GB, 450GB
Platters 2 4 4
Cache 16MB 16MB 16MB
TCQ/NCQ Yes Yes Yes
Interface SAS/600 SAS/600 SAS/600
Surface Temperature 59°C 48°C 60°C
Specified Operating temperature 5-55°C 5-55°C 5-55°C
Specified Idle Power 4.1W 6.2W 11.7W
Measured idle Power 6.0W 7.5W 13.2W
Operating Shock (2 ms read) 60 G 60 G 60 G
Warranty 5 years 5 years 5 years

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System Hardware
Hardware Details
CPU Intel Core i7-920 (45nm, 2.66 GHz, 8MB L2 Cache)
Motherboard (Socket 1366) Supermicro X8SAX Revision: 1.1, Chipset: Intel X58 + ICH10R, BIOS: 1.0B
RAM 3GB DDR3-1333 Corsair CM3X1024-1333C9DHX
HDD Seagate NL35 400GB ST3400832NS, 7,200 RPM, SATA/150, 8MB Cache
Power Supply OCZ EliteXstream 800WOCZ800EXS-EU
Benchmarks
Performance Measurements h2benchw 3.12PCMark Vantage 1.0
I/O Performance IOMeter 2006.07.27Fileserver-BenchmarkWebserver-BenchmarkDatabase-BenchmarkWorkstation-BenchmarkStreaming ReadsStreaming Writes
System Software and Drivers
Driver Details
Operating System Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
Intel Chipset Chipset Installation Utility 9.1.0.1007
AMD Graphics Radeon 8.12
Intel Matrix Storage 8.7.0.1007