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Disk Test Results Round 2

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

I've finished the tests I'd planned and the results are posted in the PDF linked here. (I've updated this since yesterday into one document with added notes, so grab the latest copy.) In the end, Seagate trounces the competition on performance. However, the second place Samsung disk is still a strong ...

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 ...