3.5” Enterprise Hard Drive Development Analyzed

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Benchmark Results: Throughput And Streaming

Page 1: Quo Vadis, Hard Drive? An Analysis Of Enterprise HDDs
Page 2: 2005: Ultrastar 15K147 (147GB)
Page 3: 2007: Ultrastar 15K300 (300GB)
Page 4: 2008: Ultrastar 15K450 (450GB)
Page 5: 2009: Ultrastar 15K600 (600GB)
Page 6: Test Setup And Comparison Table
Page 7: Benchmark Results: Access Time And I/O Performance
Page 8: Benchmark Results: Throughput And Streaming
Page 9: Benchmark Results: Throughput Diagrams
Page 10: Benchmark Results: Application Benchmarks
Page 11: Benchmark Results: Temperature And Power Consumption
Page 12: Benchmark Results: Efficiency And Performance Index, Conclusion

Benchmark Results: Throughput And Streaming

We found the improvement in throughput to be most impressive, more than doubling between 2005 and 2009. Although a single Ultrastar 15K600 cannot outperform the throughput level of fast SSDs, it’s often cheaper to achieve many hundred megabytes per second throughput by arranging multiple enterprise drives like the Ultrastar 15K600 in a RAID.