Seagate Barracuda 7200.8: 400GBs with NCQ
by Purav Sanghani on April 20, 2005 4:30 PM EST- Posted in
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Real World Tests - Application Load Times
In our Application Load Time tests, we measure the time that it takes for each application to start up. For example, our benchmarking tool begins the stopwatch as soon as PhotoShopCS.exe is run, stops after the application has finished loading all of the plugins and filters, and shuts down. We take the average of 3 runs with system reboots and hard disk defragmentations before each test run.Application Load Times (average, seconds) |
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NCQ/TCQ Status |
PhotoShop CS |
Word 2003 |
Excel 2003 |
Access 2003 |
PowerPoint 2003 |
Winner |
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| Seagate 7200.8 (NCQ) |
w/out NCQ |
7.902 |
2.216 |
2.084 |
2.709 |
2.673 |
|
w/NCQ |
6.203 |
1.836 |
1.918 |
1.938 |
1.969 |
3 |
|
| Seagate 7200.7 | N/A |
8.006 |
2.644 |
2.084 |
2.709 |
2.673 |
|
| Hitachi 7K400 | N/A |
6.375 |
1.788 |
1.281 |
2.259 |
2.530 |
|
| Maxtor DiamondMax 10 (NCQ) |
w/out NCQ |
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w/NCQ |
7.278 |
1.748 |
1.572 |
1.683 |
1.754 |
2 |
|
| Western Digital Raptor 740 | w/out TCQ |
8.012 |
2.526 |
1.604 |
2.483 |
2.663 |
|
w/TCQ |
6.067 |
1.651 |
1.495 |
1.513 |
1.491 |
X |
|
| Samsung SpinPoint SP1614C | N/A |
6.763 |
2.191 |
2.634 |
2.374 |
2.222 |
|
| Samsung SpinPoint SP1614N | N/A |
7.311 |
2.040 |
2.189 |
2.449 |
2.090 |
|
| Samsung SpinPoint SP1604N | N/A |
7.596 |
2.466 |
2.437 |
2.855 |
2.817 |
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| Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 | N/A |
8.263 |
1.984 |
2.323 |
1.662 |
2.289 |
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| Maxtor DiamondMax 16 | N/A |
9.266 |
3.355 |
2.979 |
3.816 |
3.823 |
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Since this is the first time that we are using the Application Load Time test, we are happy to see the results for each of the 3 test runs to be consistent. We performed a disk defragmentation and a reboot before each run for each application. Though time consuming, this process is necessary to attain accurate results of the performance of each hard disk drive.
Each of the drives that feature either Native Command Queuing or Tagged Command Queuing shows a good amount of increase in performance with command queuing turned on. It's not a surprise that the Raptor outperforms all of the drives on the list in Application Load Times as well. The 7200.8 comes in at the 3rd quickest drive in these tests.
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StormGod - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - link
Hey Anandtech, please make sure your pages are 100% Firefox compatible! While were on the subject, you should really strive to make your pages HTML 4.01 compliant or XHTML 1.0 compliant.cosmotic - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - link
I was going to comment on the headings too...SLIM - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - link
The shading and color fill behind the headings and drive names is also missing in firefox. You can highlight the column headings to read what they are supposed to say in firefox. Glad I downloaded that ieview extension now.bigboxes - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - link
Yup. The column headers for these tables do not show up in Firefox.shoRunner - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - link
the column labels don't show up in firefox.shoRunner - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - link
PuravSanghani - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - link
segagenesis: It seems to be an issue with our sound meter or noise reduction process. We will look into it for our next review. Besides the echo, the recordings should be clear enough to differentiate how each drive sounds.Nighteye2: Your requests will be fulfilled soon. :)
Nighteye2 - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - link
You know, with all this talk about NCQ, 1 question has not yet been answered: how does it work with RAID? Can you use NCQ on a RAID system?Also, I'd like to see these tests run on a RAID system, see the performance advantage it gives. Maybe compare 2 cheap, somewhat slower drives in a RAID array against a single HD that you can get for the same price?
segagenesis - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - link
The benchmarks are hardly cut and dry yes, but I do enjoy the fact Seagate has a 5 year warranty on drives. This after seeing the industry at one point was putting out 1-year warranty stock on drives and if you paid extra, 3 years.Raptors are the fastest drives ive ever seen but the lack of space keeps them from being all inclusive. I was kind of suprised that the 7200.8 beat out the Raptor as far as game loading went!
Whats with the weird echo-ish sound recordings of the hard drive noise? What on earth did you use to do this?
FreshPrince - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - link
man, I need to learn how to use this...anyways...I bought 40 of these drives for my company.16 goes into one raid and another 16 goes into another raid. So far so good, I hear no complaints from my tech guys.
Also, I took 2 and used it as a DFS file server, it's handling 75 users no problems. :-)