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SATA Hard Drives Run Riot: Maxtor, Hitachi, Western Digital 250 GB
Serial ATA : 82801ER (ICH5-R)Parallel ATA : 82801EB (ICH4)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400
Network Card
3COM 905TX PCI 100 MBit
OS
Windows XP Pro 5.10.2600Service Pack 1
Benchmarks
Office Applications
ZD WinBench 99 - Business Disk Winmark 2.0 c’t h2benchw
High-End Applications
ZD WinBench 99 - High-End Disk Winmark 2.0
Performance-Measurements
c’t h2benchw
I/O performance
Intel I/O meter
Drivers
Graphic
NVIDIA reference driver 29.42
Chipset
Intel INF Drivers 5.02.1002
DirectX-Version
9.0b
Resolution
1024x768, 16 bit, 85 Hz refresh
Unlike in past tests, this time around we decided to go with the h2bench2 from c’t magazine, since the results do not vary as widely. For that reason, the results of this test cannot be compared with those in previous articles without qualification.
We tweaked the test parameters for the temperature measurements as well in order to more accurately simulate real-life conditions. In concrete terms, that means the I/O meter ran for about two hours, subjecting the drive to a fair amount of strain. Only then did we read the temperature using an infrared measuring device ; the highest recorded value is reflected in our diagram.
Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.
