Understanding Hard Drive Performance

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With the results so close, it is impossible to make a simple statement: there are differences between Serial ATA and UltraATA, but they are not significant. However, you might notice that SATA drives based on a high yield of the available per-platter capacity tend to provide faster overall transfer rates.

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.

2 Comments Comment from the forums
  • t30ne
    why only comparing seagate? what about WD?
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  • darkfall13
    They were comparing the minute differences or in this case indifferences within a range of nearly identical hard drives. Branding really didn't matter except to just have them all the same...
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