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Disk Test Results Round 1

Friday, July 11th, 2008

And the winner is... well, that depends on what you're looking for in a 1TB drive. The clear, overall winner was the Seagate ST31000340NS. It won in overall speed and in sheer 'clockwork-like' consistency. But hot on its heels was the Samsung Spinpoint F1 RAID. Not only is this drive ...

Drive Testing Has Begun

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

I've started the drive tests I wrote about earlier ( read here ). I'll be posting the results here in two batches as they're completed: 1st batch will have results for all 4 models in the single disk and 3@RAID0 tests. 2nd batch will have results for the top two performers in additional ...