PC Components Storage HDDs Should You Be Looking For A Hard Drive Upgrade? Features By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 19 August 2009 Page 10 of 12: Drive Power Consumption Page 1: A Hard Drive Upgrade: Is Now The Time? Page 2: The Test System: Pentium 4 660 On Asus' P5GDC-V Page 3: Hard Drives: Samsung P120 And F2 EcoGreen Page 4: Drive Comparison Table & Test Systems Page 5: Drive Performance: Access Time And I/O Performance Page 6: Drive Performance: Throughput And Interface Bandwidth Page 7: Drive Performance: PCMark Vantage Page 8: Transfer Diagrams, Surface Temperature, Windows XP Boot Time Page 9: System Performance: SYSmark 2007 Preview Page 10: Drive Power Consumption Page 11: Drive Efficiency And System Power Consumption Page 12: Conclusion Drive Power ConsumptionDrive Power ConsumptionStay on the Cutting EdgeJoin the experts who read Tom's Hardware for the inside track on enthusiast PC tech news — and have for over 25 years. We'll send breaking news and in-depth reviews of CPUs, GPUs, AI, maker hardware and more straight to your inbox.Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Current page: Drive Power Consumption Prev Page System Performance: SYSmark 2007 Preview Next Page Drive Efficiency And System Power Consumption Patrick Schmid and Achim RoosSocial Links Navigation More about hddsDouble up on bulk storage: Save $180 when you buy two 14TB WD Red Pro NAS drivesHard drive destroyer vibrates hard drives to death in 90 seconds — DiskMantler then spits out the individual components for recyclingLatestGrab this cool retro console inspired keyboard for just $83See more latest ► Most Popular120mm AIO Roundup: Testing Be Quiet, Corsair, Cooler Master, and Enermax modelsHands-on with InWin's F5 PC Case: Back-connector motherboard support and wood front panelsThe five best AMD CPUs of all time: From old-school Athlon to brand-new RyzenHands-on with Be Quiet’s Dark Base Pro 901: Decibel dampenerThis is the fastest SSD we've ever tested — Phison E26 Max14um 2TB performance previewHands-On: Cooler Master's NCore 100 Max case stands tall and handles large GPUsI built a PC With MSI's Project Zero Motherboard: Moving all the ports to the back for a cleaner, quicker build with better airflowSurging on Smartphones, Folding Screen Adoption on Laptops Will Take Years to Go MainstreamTesting GPUs with AMD FSR3 and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora — 16 graphics cards and hundreds of benchmarksHands-On: Lian Li's LCD Screen fans turn heads and are surprisingly affordable, but not as configurable as I'd likeInside Cooler Master's heatsink-themed Taipei headquarters: Even the cafe is cutting edge
