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Testing The Hard Drive!
To test the performance of the Toshiba 120GB MK1234GSX hard drive, we turned to the venerable Disk WinBench 99 Version 2.0 as well as HDTach 3.010.
The Test Beds
|
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
Drives |
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 |
Processor |
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (o/c to
1.9GHz) |
Motherboard |
ABIT NF7-S Rev. 2.0 |
Memory |
Two 512MB Kingston HyperX DDR
SDRAM |
Graphics
Card |
ABIT GeForce4 Ti4200 OTES |
Hard
Drives |
120GB Toshiba MK1234GSX 5400 RPM hard drive 120GB Seagate 7200.7 hard disk 400GB Seagate 7200.8 hard disk |
WinBench 99 Version 2.0
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The maximum platter transfer rate was 36MB/s but this gradually tapered off to a transfer rate of only 21MB/s at the last track. The graph was 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 |
Toshiba MK1234GSX |
|
| Business Disk WinMark 99 | 8,050 KB/s |
9,340 KB/s |
6,820 KB/s |
27,500 KB/s * |
| High-End Disk WinMark 99 | 21,500 KB/s |
19,000
KB/s |
19,900 KB/s |
18,000 KB/s |
| Disk Access Time | 16.8 ms |
17.3 ms |
16.5 ms |
16.9 ms |
| CPU Utilization (64KB blocks, maximum transfer rate) |
0 % ** |
2.57 % |
0 % ** |
1.41 % |
* This very high result is due to the very large disk cache used in the desktop testbed,
and should not be used to compare with results from the notebook testbed.
** Evidently, CPU utilization cannot be so low.
and should not be used to compare with results from the notebook testbed.
** Evidently, CPU utilization cannot be so low.
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