3.5'' Vs. 2.5'' SAS HDDs: In Storage, Size Matters
Diminutive 2.5” form factors are favored in the enterprise storage world for many reasons, but how do high-end 2.5” SAS drives compare to the established 3.5” products when it comes to performance and power? We requested some drives and did the analysis.
Benchmark Results: PCMark Application Performance
As always, I'd like to point out that PCMark Vantage isn’t a server or workstation benchmark, as it doesn’t reflect typical application scenarios for these hard drive products. However, it's still a decent tool for exploring raw performance.
The new Ultrastar 15K600 wins in all subtests. The older Ultrastar 15K450 and the 2.5” C15K147 run head to head, but there are differences between one benchmark section and the next.
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