Tom Scales wrote:
> ...........
> Specs aren't everything. The Seagate 750GB drives are the fastest I own.
> Their density allows for a performance beyond seek times. The throughput is
> amazing.
>
Perhaps you should download HDTune, run a benchmark and send to their
database. http://www.hdtune.com/ Had there been one with much better
performance than the 500 gb drives when I was researching, I might well
have bought that.
There are no benchmarks there yet for 750 gb disks. I was looking at 500
gb and WD is a slightly better performer overall than the Seagate @ 500
gb, with much more even performance, better average and max rates and a
much higher lowest transfer rate. Benchmark seek time is little
different, with the WD only about 5% faster.
The Seagate burst rate is much higher and the WD CPU usage is much
lower, but I have no idea what practical effects these differences might
make in usage.
Moose
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