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By Patrick Schmid published 18 February 2008

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I/O Performance

Page 1: More High Capacity HDDs For Notebooks
Page 2: Toshiba MK3252GSX (320 GB)
Page 3: Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BEVT (320 GB)
Page 4: Test Setup
Page 5: Access Time
Page 6: I/O Performance
Page 7: PCMark Application Benchmark Results
Page 8: Conclusion

I/O Performance

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