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| 400GB SATA-II Challenge - Seagate vs. Western Digital |
| Page 2 - PCMark05 |
| Page 3 - SiSoft Sandra |
| Page 4 - HD Tune |
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The First Test: PCMark05
PCMark05 has 5 different Hard Drive tests that it performs, all of which are designed to test the drives in a real-world environment instead of just seeing how fast it can write a big chunk of data. All the tests were performed twice for accuracy with the average result used as the final data.
As we can see from the above graphs, both 400GB drives have a significant speed advantage over the older generation 250GB drive, which is to be expected as technologies improve and the bit density on the drive platters gets higher, which means the head can read/write more data in a given number of rotations.
The graphs also show the two 400GB drives tussling for first place, with the Seagate drive faster in the Windows XP start-up simulation and the virus scan, but falling behind the Western Digital on the other three tests. This could be a result of the Seagate’s NCQ ability.
