SATA II to the Power of 3.0Gb/sec: Three Drives Reviewed
by Purav Sanghani on June 25, 2005 7:06 PM EST- Posted in
- Storage
Real World Tests - Multitasking Performance
To provide a real world example of multitasking we use run Outlook and import 450MB of emails into an account. We then time how long it takes our benchmarking utlity to zip a single 300MB file. To compare our results we calculate the difference between the multitasked process and the single task file zip process.
Outlook + File Zip 1 300MB File |
||||
NCQ/TCQ Status |
Multitasked |
File Zip Only |
% Difference |
|
| Hitachi T7K250 | w/out NCQ |
76.543 |
67.057 |
12.39% |
w/NCQ |
79.815 |
65.641 |
21.6% |
|
| Samsung HD160JJ | w/out NCQ |
71.484 |
58.805 |
21.6% |
w/NCQ |
73.554 |
61.068 |
20.4% |
|
| Western Digital WD1600JS | N/A |
74.371 |
61.182 |
21.6% |
Very disappointing. Hitachi's T7K250 performed better than the rest in this real world multitasking test...with NCQ turned off! Now, drive manufacturers list NCQ as a native feature, but it does not seem to work too well in real world situations. As we look at products in the future, we hope to see atleast some improvement given by Native Command Queuing.
Facebook
Twitter
RSS
52 Comments
View All Comments
mechBgon - Sunday, June 26, 2005 - link
Interestingly, my old Cheetah 15k.3 still spanks my Seagate 7200.8 OMGNCQSATABBQ drive by a factor of about 2:1 on seek-intensive real-world work tasks. People with seek-intensive work to do should still explore the SCSI option if it seems like their I/O is holding up the show.PuravSanghani - Sunday, June 26, 2005 - link
All graphs should be fixed now.We did use Hitachi's Feature tool to enable SATA 3.0Gb/sec mode prior to the benchmarks.
Purav
ArcticOC - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
Was the sata2 mode enabled og the test?! This HAVE to bee done after you buy the drive.. because the deafult speed is to 150MB/secsoftware from hitachi have to be run in order to enable 300mode
http://forum.hardware.no/index.php?act=Attach&...
Viper4185 - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
No graphs for me either! Something is broken!Souka - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
That is one ugly review.They should pull it, fix it, then repost
ArcticOC - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
I really hope the testers to their time setting sataII mode to the Hitachi, This ahve to be done manually by their software called "IBM feature tool", unless u do this, det disk will run at low sata 150 instead of the 300mode.http://forum.hardware.no/index.php?act=Attach&...
The disk comes by deafults w/interface of only 150.. chech taht this important is used under all test.. anything else would be BS if not
GhandiInstinct - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
My raptor still at reign.SocrPlyr - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
Graphs on some pages and not on others in IE6.Everything looks great in Firefox
Josh
RMSistight - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
Still no graphs for some pages! I need to read the game loading times!CrystalBay - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
Well looks like I'll be keeping my 120GB 7200.7 a little longer. :)