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Western Digital WD1500ADFD: King Raptor

 by Gary Key on February 8, 2006 1:30 AM EST
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Single Application Test Procedures:
  1. File Zip Test - We take a 300MB file and measure the time that it takes for our system to compress it to ZIP format. We then start the test procedure with 300 (1MB) files to determine how the drive performs with multiple files.
  2. File Unzip Test - Using the same methodology as the File Zip Test, we take a single 300MB Zip file and 300 (1MB) ZIP files and measure the time that it takes to uncompress each ZIP file successfully.
  3. File Copy Test - We measure how long it takes for the system to copy a single 300MB file and 300 (1MB) files.

File Zip Test - Single 300MB File

File Zip Test - 300 (1MB) Files

File Unzip Test - Single 300MB File

File Unzip Test - 300 (1MB) Files

Copy Folder Test - Single 300MB File

Copy Folder Test - 300 (1MB) Files

The WD1500 leads the other drives in this test scenario. The WD740GD-00FLC0 offers better scores than its predecessor. The Samsung SP2504C continues its lead over the Maxtor 7L300S0 in several of the benchmarks. However, the Maxtor scores very well in the Copy Folder tests.
Hard Disk Performance: PCMark 2005 Hard Disk Performance: Multi-Tasking & Game Tests
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  • retrospooty - Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - link

    How do you enable/disable NCQ? I can't find anything on that.

  • Gary Key - Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - link

    quote:
    How do you enable/disable NCQ? I can't find anything on that.


    This is accomplished through the NVIDIA SW-IDE driver settings. I will post a how to this evening.

  • retrospooty - Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - link

    Thanks, I found it, based on your clue above... I was looking at the drive props, not the IDE controller props... Duh.

  • Live - Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - link

    quote:
    Thanks, I found it, based on your clue above... I was looking at the drive props, not the IDE controller props... Duh.


    Care to enlighten the rest of us?

  • retrospooty - Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - link

    Go to your system props>device manager>SATA controller, and uncheck the option.

    I have the latest Nforce 4 drivers loaded, so I cant say its exactly the same for earlier versions, or Intel/other chipsets, but that would be the logical place to look.

  • Live - Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - link

    I am wondering the same thing. Since it seems NCQ is not worth it for desktop use how do you disable it?

  • mlittl3 - Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - link

    This review goes into way too much depth about NCQ vs. no NCQ. I can't remember if they say how to disable it. It is also a great review comparing SCSI vs. Raptor and SATA vs. Raptor performance. It is the most indepth review to date of all raptor drives except it leaves out Raid tests.

    http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200601/WD150...">http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200601/WD150...

  • mlittl3 - Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - link

    Whoops, I meant to imply that the Storagereview.com review goes into way too much detail about NCQ, not the Anandtech review. :)

  • Gary Key - Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - link

    quote:
    Whoops, I meant to imply that the Storagereview.com review goes into way too much detail about NCQ, not the Anandtech review. :)


    I understood that from your original statement. We wanted to go into more detail but the new game and multi-tasking benchmarks were not ready yet. Hopefully, we can provide more details in the near future.

  • Gary Key - Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - link


    quote:
    This review goes into way too much depth about NCQ vs. no NCQ. I can't remember if they say how to disable it. It is also a great review comparing SCSI vs. Raptor and SATA vs. Raptor performance. It is the most indepth review to date of all raptor drives except it leaves out Raid tests.


    Eugene Ra provides excellent information and analysis. :-) We are expanding our test suites at this time and will be providing a more in-depth analysis of drives in the near future. Also, we will be expanding our RAID coverage depending upon the drive being tested (will it make a difference). There is certainly a need to do RAID analysis but it should include more than RAID 0 which only provides benefits in certain benchmarks. ;->
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