Understanding Hard Drive Performance
Features
published
Benchmark Results
We took a look both at Serial ATA and UltraATA drives for this project; hence you will find one diagram for each on the following pages.
Data Transfer Diagram
We created these transfer diagrams using the performance data of all hard drives using the same interface. Thus, they not only show the performance of a single drive, but the absolute maximum and minimum values that we found across the lineup between 250 and 750 GB.
Stay On the Cutting Edge: Get the Tom's Hardware Newsletter
Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox.
Current page: Benchmark Results
Prev Page Application Performance: Windows XP Start Next Page Data Transfer RatesMore about hdds
2 Comments
Comment from the forums
-
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...Reply