Smart Hard Drives: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and Western Digital WD740 Raptor

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Processor
Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 2.2 GHz, FSB400512 kB L2 Cache
System
Motherboard AOpen AX4PE MaxIntel 845E Chipset
RAM Buffalo Tech 512 MB DDR333, CL 2.5
Common Hardware
Graphics Card nVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400, 32 MB
System Hard Drive Western Digital WD1200JB, 120 GBUltraATA/100, 7.200 U/Min, 8 MB Cache
Network Controller 3COM 3C905TX-B, 100 MBit/s
Mass Storage Controller Single Drive Tests :Silicon Image Sil3512, 2 SATA ChannelsRAID 0 Tests :HighPoint RocketRAID 1640
Drivers
Chipset Intel INF-Update 5.02.1003
Graphics Driver nVIDIA Detonator 41.09
DirectX 9.0a
OS Windows XP Professional5.1.2600, Service Pack 1
Benchmarks & Settings
Transfer-Performance Benchmark c’t h2benchw Ver. 3.6
Transfer Diagram Winbench 99 2.0Disk Inspection Test
I/O Performance IOMeter 2003.05.10Fileserver Benchmark PatternWebserver Benchmark Pattern
Application Performance Winbench 99 2.0Disk Winmarks
Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

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.