Seagate 160 GB SATA (ST3160023AS)

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Brian Kristensen
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Seagate
May. 15, 2004

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Disk Bench 2.2

Disk Bench is a fairly "real-life" benchmark in that it simply creates or copies a file onto a drive and calculates the time it took. For our tests, Disk Bench will create a 500 MB file in ten 50 MB blocks and record the time in milliseconds.

Disk Bench 2.2 File Creation Test

Time

Seagate 160 GB SATA (Single)

Maxtor 200 GB PATA (Single)

2x Seagate SATA in RAID 0

2x Seagate SATA in RAID 1

9250

9578

9437

18453

(ms) Lower is Better

20000

Disk Bench 2.2 File Creation Test

Transfer Rate

Seagate 160 GB SATA (Single)

Maxtor 200 GB PATA (Single)

2x Seagate SATA in RAID 0

2x Seagate SATA in RAID 1

54.054

52.203

52.983

27.096

(MB/s)

100

The results show the single Seagate drive having the fastest file creation speeds and transfer rates. The Seagate drives in RAID 1 take roughly twice as long at half the speed. RAID 0 has a minimal performance advantage during these tests.

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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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