Raptor 150 GB vs Caviar 750 GB Performance Test
System
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (reference 2.4 GHz clock).
- 4 GB DDR2-800 RAM (4 x 1 GB, dual-channel).
- Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 (Intel P965 chipset, F12 BIOS, latest chipset drivers).
- nVidia 8800 Ultra, nVidia reference clocks, Forceware 163.75.
- Windows XP SP2 Pro 32 bit.
- Western Digital Raptor 150 GB.
- Western Digital Caviar SE16 750 GB.
Methods
- Both drives were copies of each other (i.e. all of my games).
- Both drives were defragmented before testing.
- After testing one drive I rebooted the system to eliminate caching.
- The tests were taken by stop-watch from the time I hit “load” to when the game returned control to me.
- All results are in seconds, so lower scores are better.
- Allow a +/- 1 second margin of error.
