Setting Up the Benchmarks for Storage Reviews
Welcome to a different kind of article that you will be reading. In this article I will be introducing you to some of the benchmarks that I have selected for future storage reviews. I will be using some of the industry leading software such as Lavalys’ Everest, SiSoftware’s SANDRA, HDTach and a few more. These are synthetic benchmarks and don’t always provide an accurate indication of how the drives would perform when working with real world files. Therefore I will be creating some of my own tests to mimic some of the commonly performed real world tasks. These include copying files, game level load and muxing (joining) of video files.
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For today’s introduction I will be using Western Digital’s 640GB 640AAKS hard drive.
When it comes to world of hard drives, one of the first names that come to mind is Western Digital. They are one of the most respected manufacturers with some exciting products in their lineup. They are known for making one of the fastest consumer hard drives, the Raptor and then the Velociraptor series.
Let’s take a look at what I am using:
This drive features 320GB platters spinning at 7200 rpm. Two 320 GB platters are used to reach the advertised capacity of 640 GB. This drive uses the SATA II Interface and 16 MB of cache.
I will be stunned at the items I overlooked prior to I read this post.