Understanding Hard Drive Performance

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Application Performance

I/O-Performance

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Summary
  1. A Guide To Hard Drive Selection
  2. Hard Drive Internals
  3. Storage Density, Recording Technology
  4. Platter Diameter
  5. 8 Or 16 MB Buffer
  6. Test Setup
  7. Read Transfer Rates
  8. Application Performance: Windows XP Start
  9. Benchmark Results
  10. Data Transfer Rates
  11. Interface Bandwidth
  12. Application Performance
  13. I/O-Performance, Continued
  14. Conclusion
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  • t30ne
    why only comparing seagate? what about WD?
  • 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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