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Testing The Momentus!
To test the performance of the Seagate 160GB Momentus 5400.3 hard drive, we turned to the venerable Disk WinBench 99 Version 2.0 as well as HDTach 3.010.
The Test Bed
|
Processor |
1.60GHz Intel Pentium
M 725 (Dothan) |
|
Chipset |
Intel i855PM |
|
Memory |
1GB Kingston PC2700
DDR SDRAM |
|
Graphics
Processor |
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 |
|
Graphics
Driver |
ATI Catalyst Ver. 4.9 |
|
Graphics
Memory |
64MB DDR SDRAM |
|
Graphics
Bus |
AGP 4X |
|
Hard
Disk |
100GB Seagate Momentus
7200.1 7200 RPM hard drive 160GB Seagate Momentus 5400.3 5400 RPM hard drive 120GB Seagate Momentus 5400.2 5400 RPM hard drive 40GB Fujitsu MHT2040AT 4200 RPM hard drive |
WinBench 99 Version 2.0
The maximum platter transfer rate was 43.7MB/s but this gradually tapered off to a transfer rate of only 23.9MB/s at the last track. The graph is pretty smooth, with no large dips in transfer rate that may suggest the use of replacement sectors. So, the platter quality appears to be very good.
Here are the rest of the results :-
Momentus
7200.1 |
Momentus
5400.3 |
Momentus
5400.2 |
|
| Business Disk WinMark 99 | 8,050 KB/s |
9,340 KB/s |
6,820 KB/s |
| High-End Disk WinMark 99 | 21,500 KB/s |
19,000
KB/s |
19,900 KB/s |
| Disk Access Time | 16.8 ms |
17.3 ms |
16.5 ms |
| CPU Utilization (64KB blocks, maximum transfer rate) |
0 % * |
2.57 % |
0 % * |
* Evidently, CPU utilization cannot be so low.
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