Seagate 160 GB SATA (ST3160023AS)

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Brian Kristensen
Kurtis
Seagate
May. 15, 2004

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Test System

Pentium 4 2.4c
ABIT IC7-MAX3
PowerColor Radeon 9800 XT
LiteOn 16X DVD-ROM
Soyo Raptor 400W Power Supply
Windows XP Professional (latest updates)

Benchmarks

HD Tach 2.7
Disk Bench 2.2
WinBench 99

To test the Seagate drives we will be gathering the results of a few different benchmarks including HD Tach, Disk Bench and WinBench 99. The Seagate drives will be tested by themselves, in RAID 0 and RAID 1 against the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200 GB hard drive with 8 MB cache. The DiamondMax Plus 9 will not be tested in a RAID array since we do not have a matching pair.

The Seagate drives were connected via the IC7-MAX3's onboard Silicon Image 4-port SATA RAID controller. The Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 was connected as a single master on the secondary IDE channel. A low level format was performed on each drive before any testing. All formatted drives used the NTFS file system.

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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: A Closer Look
Page 3: Test System / Benchmarks
Page 4: Benchmarks: HD Tach 2.7
Page 5: Benchmarks: Disk Bench 2.2
Page 6: Benchmarks: WinBench 99
Page 7: Conclusion

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3 User Comments

1 - Posted by EmoMakesMeCry on May 16, 2004 - 12:44 pm

i have the seagate 120 gig version of that drive and absolutely love it. it doesnt perform any better than my 160 PATA master drive, but it is extremely quiet and doesn't emit enough heat to worry about. i really can't wait for the 2nd and 3rd generation drives to come out though.
*insert greedy laugh here*

2 - Posted by greymatter on July 19, 2004 - 9:50 am

I too own the 120GB Seagate drive and it's without a doubt the best drive I have ever owned. The performance jump, while small, has it where it counts. Moving multiple files and defragging is noticeably faster with this SATA over my other IDE still installed. I have previously run with quite a few IBM Deskstars which I also consider to be a rock solid drive and this Seagate has it beat. Great product.

I definitely second Emo though and can't wait for the next generation drives to start my HTPC project. :wink:

3 - Posted by Guest on July 12, 2005 - 11:25 am

Your board is limiting the performance. Why didn't you use the raid card that was sent?

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