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| 400GB SATA-II Challenge - Seagate vs. Western Digital |
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Next: SiSoft Sandra
The SiSoft Sandra tests we perform on the drives are the Physical Disk benchmark (Read Performance Only) and the File System Benchmark, both of which measure the total throughput of the drives as well as give a record of their latency/random access times for the different tests.
As we can see in the above graphs, the Western Digital appears to be the better drive when it comes to raw data throughput, however the Seagate has slightly lower seek times, which would help explain why it was better at a few of the PCMark tests even though the Western Digital appears to have faster total throughput.
