| Article Index |
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| Western Digital 750GB SATA-II Caviar RE2 Review |
| Page 2 - PC Mark05 |
| Page 3 - SiSoft Sandra |
| Page 4 - HD Tune |
| Page 5 - Conclusion |
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Next – SiSoft Sandra:
We put the drives through the full range of SiSoft Sandra’s Physical Drive and File System benchmarks, which go into a bit more detail than the PCMark tests.
The first test results shown above are from the Physical Disk test, which tests the average drive throughput speed. In this case we see both the Western Digital drives are closely matched and are ahead by a surprising amount over the Seagate drive. In the end it’s the cheaper Western Digital SE16 that comes out on top, even if only marginally.
SiSoft Sandra’s File System benchmark performs three types of tests for both reading and writing to the drive. Firstly a random read test with the heads moving all over the drive, a sequential read which reads from one track so there’s no head movement, and in this case it looks to be from the fastest part of the platter, and a buffered read, which really tests how fast the drive can push data down the SATA-II interface from its buffer.
We can see that both the Western Digital drives are almost identical with the cheaper SE16 being slightly in front in all the tests, while both Western Digital’s are well out in front of the Seagate drive in all areas.
It’s a similar situation for the write tests with the Western Digital drives both having nearly identical results and the Seagate lagging rather significantly behind.
These tests are showing a clear trend of the two Western Digital drives having near identical performance, despite their significant difference in price.
