Fastest 500GB+ HDD (excluding F1)
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Hi Jim its from last year this review but makes interesting reading.
Mentions if your after it for enterprise use then the WD RE3 being fastest.
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/627/1
http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=320056
Mentions if your after it for enterprise use then the WD RE3 being fastest.
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/627/1
http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=320056
PeterStoba
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name='Luigi' said:
Green power ones are slow( well, slowest of the WD bunch, and lowest power) The blue are the ones you want I think
Rastalovich
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Go put some coffee on:
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/627/1
EDIT: Just checked the 500s I got here:
2x WD5000AAJS-22YFA0
1x WD5000KS-00MWB0 ?? no plain KS on the site
1x WD5000AAKS-00A7B0
According to the hardware list. I went through a bad spout of Seagate drives about a year ago and went WD.
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/627/1
EDIT: Just checked the 500s I got here:
2x WD5000AAJS-22YFA0
1x WD5000KS-00MWB0 ?? no plain KS on the site
1x WD5000AAKS-00A7B0
According to the hardware list. I went through a bad spout of Seagate drives about a year ago and went WD.
WC Annihilus
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Normal consumer level drive, gotta be the WD 640GB. There is a Black edition, but by the looks of it, isn't necessarily faster, but has dual processor tech so CPU usage might be a bit less and has 5 year warranty compared to the Blue (normal) version
Rastalovich
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Seen this crazyness today:
http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials...ard+Drive-+16MB&utm_campaign=newsletter250209
£30 ? for 500gb SA2 ?
http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials...ard+Drive-+16MB&utm_campaign=newsletter250209
£30 ? for 500gb SA2 ?
The WD wd6400aaks would have to be one of the fastest. Has high density platters.
These are very fast drives I have bought 2 to make an intel matrix raid setup. Short stroked them for a 80gb raid 0 and the rest another raid 0 volume.
Again these are very fast, I downloaded the hitatchi f-tune dos hardrive tuner to set the aam to 254 instead of the default slow-n-quite standard setting.
These drives new high density platter versions with the two 320gb platters.
My 80gb raid 0 volume on 2 of these drives has a Random access of 7.6ms, an average read of 223.8MB/s and a burst speed of 3159MB/s.
The remaining space on the drives is a raid 0 1.1TB array which has a respectable 13.2ms response time (random access time), 179.2MB/s average read and a 3145.5MB/s burst speed.
These scores are form a HD tach long test.
I used 128kb stripe btw.
Truely great drives.
These are very fast drives I have bought 2 to make an intel matrix raid setup. Short stroked them for a 80gb raid 0 and the rest another raid 0 volume.
Again these are very fast, I downloaded the hitatchi f-tune dos hardrive tuner to set the aam to 254 instead of the default slow-n-quite standard setting.
These drives new high density platter versions with the two 320gb platters.
My 80gb raid 0 volume on 2 of these drives has a Random access of 7.6ms, an average read of 223.8MB/s and a burst speed of 3159MB/s.
The remaining space on the drives is a raid 0 1.1TB array which has a respectable 13.2ms response time (random access time), 179.2MB/s average read and a 3145.5MB/s burst speed.
These scores are form a HD tach long test.
I used 128kb stripe btw.
Truely great drives.
name='cl0ck_ed' said:The WD wd6400aaks would have to be one of the fastest. Has high density platters.
These are very fast drives I have bought 2 to make an intel matrix raid setup. Short stroked them for a 80gb raid 0 and the rest another raid 0 volume.
Again these are very fast, I downloaded the hitatchi f-tune dos hardrive tuner to set the aam to 254 instead of the default slow-n-quite standard setting.
These drives new high density platter versions with the two 320gb platters.
My 80gb raid 0 volume on 2 of these drives has a Random access of 7.6ms, an average read of 223.8MB/s and a burst speed of 3159MB/s.
The remaining space on the drives is a raid 0 1.1TB array which has a respectable 13.2ms response time (random access time), 179.2MB/s average read and a 3145.5MB/s burst speed.
These scores are form a HD tach long test.
I used 128kb stripe btw.
Truely great drives.
The burst speeds are just from the cache though...?
name='Luigi' said:
I'm guessing so, don't know have it tests it though. The main thing is the low access time on my 80gb boot partion, and the high average read. The other partition of 1.1tb has a pretty good 13.2ms access and a good average read aswell but not the the same extent of of 80gb raid 0 boot partition.
Adding some better pics one the speed of the drive:
Single hd:
80gb raid0 boot partition:
This hdtune above is with a 64% full drive, so empty will see a good improvement.
Raid1 556gb:
1.1tb storage partition:
