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
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Real World Tests - Application Load Times
In our Application Load Time tests, we measure the time it takes for each application to startup. For example, our benchmarking tool begins the stopwatch as soon as PhotoShopCS.exe is run and 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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| Hitachi T7K250 | w/out NCQ |
8.953 |
2.422 |
1.953 |
2.203 |
2.203 |
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w/NCQ |
7.984 |
2.375 |
2.609 |
2.766 |
2.109 |
x |
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| Samsung HD160JJ | w/out NCQ |
8.703 |
2.609 |
2.984 |
3.031 |
2.116 |
|
w/NCQ |
8.601 |
2.554 |
2.887 |
3.115 |
2.245 |
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| Western Digital WD1600JS | N/A |
8.938 |
2.469 |
2.562 |
2.484 |
2.438 |
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Hitachi's T7K250 came out as the winner of this round. Photoshop CS usually takes about 8-9 seconds, on average, to load its DLL's and plugins. With NCQ turned on, Photoshop CS finished these tasks 1 second quicker. This 1 second may not seem like such a big deal when it comes to loading applications, but when multitasking scenarious come into play NCQ may shave off a great deal of time.
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bersl2 - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
And I need to learn to refresh.bersl2 - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
---quote---Our first benchmark shows Western Digital's WD1600JS coming in at second best in pure hard disk performance at 719 IO operations per second while the 74GB 15000RPM Raptor still tops the charts.
---quote---
Um... did I miss something? Aren't Raptors 10k in RPMs?
mechBgon - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
Typo on page 3 referring to a 15000rpm Ratpro. They wish :D...errr, 10th post!
cryptonomicon - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
eh, a few minutes ago, the review showed up but when i clicky, it goes to search review panel.GhandiInstinct - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
No graphs on some pages still.GhandiInstinct - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
Haha!PuravSanghani - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
When our publisher is away, with HTML we get to play!Sorry about that guys...everything should be good now. Do let us know if you see anything odd though.
Thanks for stopping by!
Purav
pastorjay - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
If I remember right, Wes said that their HTML coder was gone and they were doing all their own coding.Krk3561 - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
graphs wont work for me eitherChiefNutz - Saturday, June 25, 2005 - link
Never mind.