Hitachi 5K3000 vs Samsung F4 vs WD 2TB benches

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lawrence131

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Recently purchased all 3 of their 5400-5900 RPM storage drives and got bored so ran some benches on a standard ICH10 controller. The Hitachi 5K3000 which was just released actually wins in sustained transfers, 4K random read/writes, as well as PCMark productivity HDD Suite. All brand new drives freshly formatted. Full details below:

Hitachi 5K3000

HD Tune 4.6

Min 67.0
Max 142.1
Avr 108.4
Access 19.0ms
CPU 3.5%

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 144.571 MB/s
Sequential Write : 143.601 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 50.754 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 52.769 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.627 MB/s [ 153.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.713 MB/s [ 418.2 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 1.630 MB/s [ 397.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.204 MB/s [ 293.8 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [F: 0.0% (0.1/1863.0 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2011/02/06 21:00:28
OS : Windows 7 [6.1 Build 7600] (x86)


PCMark Vantage HDD Suite 5515


Samsung F4 2TB


HD Tune 4.6

Min 61.9
Max 133.2
Avr 103.1
Access 17.7ms
CPU 3.5%

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 138.866 MB/s
Sequential Write : 138.866 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 41.027 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 54.480 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.471 MB/s [ 115.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.018 MB/s [ 248.5 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.772 MB/s [ 188.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.038 MB/s [ 253.3 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [F: 0.0% (0.1/1863.0 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2011/02/06 21:58:44
OS : Windows 7 [6.1 Build 7600] (x86)

PCMark Vantage HDD Suite 4092



WDC Green WD20EARS

HD Tune 4.6

Min 49.1
Max 121.2
Avr 89.8
Access 15.6ms
CPU 3.4%

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 117.474 MB/s
Sequential Write : 116.353 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 39.870 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 75.240 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.541 MB/s [ 132.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.162 MB/s [ 283.7 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 1.680 MB/s [ 410.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.248 MB/s [ 304.7 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [F: 0.0% (0.1/1863.0 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2011/02/06 22:46:39
OS : Windows 7 [6.1 Build 7600] (x86)


PCMark Vantage HDD Suite 4897
 
Same suite ran on the budget Hitachi 1TB drive that was just on sale for $49 a couple weeks ago.

HITACHI Deskstar H3IK1000 7200RPM 1TB

HD Tune 4.6

Min 63.7
Max 140.5
Avr 111.2
Access 14.2ms
CPU 3.8%


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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 141.546 MB/s
Sequential Write : 140.919 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 52.133 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 51.713 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.651 MB/s [ 159.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.393 MB/s [ 340.0 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 1.433 MB/s [ 349.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.435 MB/s [ 350.4 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [F: 0.0% (0.1/931.5 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2011/02/07 0:33:04
OS : Windows 7 [6.1 Build 7600] (x86)



PCMark Vantage HDD Suite 5228
 
Can you please post HDTune Short Stroking benchmark with the 5K3000? thx
 
Short Stroked to 120GB, typical size for OS/Apps drive. Looks pretty good considering it was designed as a pure storage drive. If the other 1.8TB is rarely used just as a second copy of movies, drive snapshots, etc, this might be an OK low-end dual purpose boot drive/backup drive for $79.

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rather than cluttering with too many more pics, I ran the same test with SS to 60GB, same transfer rate and general graph appearance. Brings access time down to 9.0ms. Just ordered another one of these drives to run in my new HTPC build in a RAID 0 short stroked boot + backup spanned volume as a cheap alternative. The spanned volume will never be accessed except for imaging my RAID 5 storage array from another machine perhaps once a week at 3am. I know everyone and their dog here is very anti RAID 0, but for a non-critical machine I'm fine with it since if it crashes I have a Win7 PE image with storage/RAID drivers preloaded that can have full file access anyways.
 
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lawrence131 said:
glad you read the first sentence. this is the new 5900 RPM Hitachi drive that was just released.
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I read the first sentence. Somehow I read 5k3000 as 7k3000 and assumed you tested the 7200RPM drive. Hence my confusion.

Sorry about that. :(
 
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Stereodude said:
I read the first sentence. Somehow I read 5k3000 as 7k3000 and assumed you tested the 7200RPM drive. Hence my confusion.
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He ran a bunch of benches with thorough details on a variety of drives, so you could at least apologize for the uneeded sarcasm.

Anyway, thank you OP. I've been looking at picking up a 2TB drive and these benches helped a lot.
 
thanks Jon55.

no apologies needed but thanks, this is what we do for fun :) nice to see that there is gradual progress being made on these large storage drives though, at least in terms of the benchmarks. I was thinking what drive I wanted to use on a new ZFS build and new HTPC and there was very little data on the new Hitachi drives. Despite the old Deathstar days I've been a Hitachi fan for years so I'm gonna give these suckers a spin and post some ZFS benchmarks when I get to them as well.
 
More results from what I posted the other day here:
2ch comparison between the Hitachi 2TB 5K3000, the 2TB Samsung F4, and the 2TB Western Digital Green.

lawrence131, could you also run HddRpmEst 0.15 so we can see how your drives match up?
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/zero/eight/HddRpmEst/

It doesn't support non-japanese systems very well, but just select your drive from the drop-down menu and click the button on the left to start the read test.

When finished just place the data into my translated template
Code: 
====== HddRpmEst v0.1.5 === Report ============================
Target HDD　　　　　　　：　PasteDriveManufacturererHere PastePartNumberHere

Rotational Speed (estimated)　　　　　：　xxxx rpm
Average Access Time　　：　xx.x msec
Average Access Time (10% Short Stroke) 　：　xx.x msec
Transfer Rate(Outer,Maximum) 　：　sustained xxx.x MB/s ／ burst xxx.x MB/s ＝ xx.x %
Transfer Rate(Outer,Average) 　：　sustained xxx.x MB/s ／ burst xxx.x MB/s ＝ xx.x %
Transfer Rate(Inner,Average) 　：　sustained xxx.x MB/s ／ burst xxx.x MB/s ＝ xx.x %
Transfer Rate(Inner,Minimum) 　：　sustained xxx.x MB/s ／ burst xxx.x MB/s ＝ xx.x %
Inner/Outer Ratio(Average,Smallest) ：　　xx.x %,　xx.x %　　／　　　　xx.x %,　xx.x %
Remarks　　　　　　　　　：　Outside[xx/xx,v0.xx,a0.xx] Inside[xx/xx,v0.xx,a0.xx]
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For example here are the results for a couple of my older 7K2000 (7200rpm):
Code: 
====== HddRpmEst v0.1.5 === Report ============================
Target HDD　　　　　　　：　Hitachi HDS722020ALA330

Rotational Speed (estimated)　　　　　：　7168 rpm
Average Access Time　　：　13.1 msec
Average Access Time (10% Short Stroke) 　：　8.7 msec
Transfer Rate(Outer,Maximum) 　：　sustained 134.4 MB/s ／ burst 154.0 MB/s ＝ 87.3 %
Transfer Rate(Outer,Average) 　：　sustained 131.9 MB/s ／ burst 151.2 MB/s ＝ 87.2 %
Transfer Rate(Inner,Average) 　：　sustained 67.0 MB/s ／ burst 76.8 MB/s ＝ 87.2 %
Transfer Rate(Inner,Minimum) 　：　sustained 63.8 MB/s ／ burst 73.1 MB/s ＝ 87.3 %
Inner/Outer Ratio(Average,Smallest) ：　　50.8 %,　47.5 %　　／　　　　50.8 %,　47.5 %
Remarks　　　　　　　　　：　Outside[29/29,v0.20,a0.98] Inside[23/23,v0.18,a0.97]
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Code: 
====== HddRpmEst v0.1.5 === Report ============================
Target HDD　　　　　　　：　Hitachi HDS722020ALA330

Rotational Speed (estimated)　　　　　：　7164 rpm
Average Access Time　　：　13.1 msec
Average Access Time (10% Short Stroke) 　：　8.6 msec
Transfer Rate(Outer,Maximum) 　：　sustained 141.6 MB/s ／ burst 161.9 MB/s ＝ 87.5 %
Transfer Rate(Outer,Average) 　：　sustained 135.4 MB/s ／ burst 155.2 MB/s ＝ 87.2 %
Transfer Rate(Inner,Average) 　：　sustained 67.7 MB/s ／ burst 77.5 MB/s ＝ 87.4 %
Transfer Rate(Inner,Minimum) 　：　sustained 56.4 MB/s ／ burst 64.6 MB/s ＝ 87.3 %
Inner/Outer Ratio(Average,Smallest) ：　　50.0 %,　39.8%　　／　　　　49.9 %,　39.9 %
Remarks　　　　　　　　　：　Outside[29/29,v0.32,a0.95] Inside[23/23,v0.28,a0.98]
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It takes a minute to paste in the results, but it's really not that bad. It's useful for this recent trend of 'Green' drives which don't advertise their actual RPM.
 
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====== HddRpmEst v0.1.5 === Report ============================
Target HDD　　　　　　　：　Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA LM20023FA0TRDX

Rotational Speed (estimated)　　　　　：　5938 rpm
Average Access Time　　：　19.1 msec
Average Access Time (10% Short Stroke) 　：　10.8 msec
Transfer Rate(Outer,Maximum) 　：　sustained 150 MB/s ／ burst xxx.x MB/s ＝ xx.x %
Transfer Rate(Outer,Average) 　：　sustained 148 MB/s ／ burst xxx.x MB/s ＝ xx.x %
Transfer Rate(Inner,Average) 　：　sustained 69 MB/s ／ burst xxx.x MB/s ＝ xx.x %
Transfer Rate(Inner,Minimum) 　：　sustained 66 MB/s ／ burst xxx.x MB/s ＝ xx.x %
Inner/Outer Ratio(Average,Smallest) ：　　xx.x %,　xx.x %　　／　　　　xx.x %,　xx.x %
Remarks　　　　　　　　　：　Outside[xx/xx,v0.xx,a0.xx] Inside[xx/xx,v0.xx,a0.xx]
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my output format was slightly different than the template but those are the numbers that should match. actually very close to what HD Tune Pro listed (5940 RPM) - it somehow knew this although my version of HD Tune is much older than the drive release date. The estimate based on outside/inside transfer ratios is almost exact (5938).
 
How was it different? You should see something like below when it finishes:
hdrpmest.png

All the data should paste nicely into the template.
 
oops. i clicked the download link for version 0.1 instead of 0.1.5, here is a direct paste from the correct version.


====== HddRpmEst v0.1.5 === Œ‹‰ÊƒŒƒ|[ƒg =====================================
‘ÎÛ HDD@@@@@@@F@Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA LM20023FA0TRDX
‰ñ“]”(„’è)@@@@@F@5940 rpm
•½‹ÏƒAƒNƒZƒXƒ^ƒCƒ€@@F@19.5 msec
“¯ã(æ“ª10%‚̗̈æ) @F@10.8 msec
“]‘—‘¬“x(ŠOŽü,Å‘å) @F@sustained 149.7 MB/s ^ burst 162.3 MB/s  92.2 %
“]‘—‘¬“x(ŠOŽü,•½‹Ï) @F@sustained 147.0 MB/s ^ burst 159.4 MB/s  92.2 %
“]‘—‘¬“x(“àŽü,•½‹Ï) @F@sustained 68.7 MB/s ^ burst 74.6 MB/s  92.1 %
“]‘—‘¬“x(“àŽü,Å¬) @F@sustained 65.8 MB/s ^ burst 71.0 MB/s  92.7 %
“àŠOŽü”ä(•½‹Ï,Å‘召) F@@46.7 %,@44.0 %@@^@@@@46.8 %,@43.7 %
”õl@@@@@@@@@F@ŠO[30/30,v0.13,a0.98]“à[24/24,v0.24,a0.92]
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Code: 
====== HddRpmEst v0.1.5 === Report ============================
Target HDD　　　　　　　：　Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA

Rotational Speed (estimated)　　　　　：　5940 rpm
Average Access Time　　：　19.5 msec
Average Access Time (10% Short Stroke) 　：　10.8 msec
Transfer Rate(Outer,Maximum) 　：　sustained 149.7 MB/s ／ burst 162.3 MB/s ＝ 92.2 %
Transfer Rate(Outer,Average) 　：　sustained 147.0 MB/s ／ burst 159.4 MB/s ＝ 92.2 %
Transfer Rate(Inner,Average) 　：　sustained 68.7 MB/s ／ burst 74.6 MB/s ＝ 92.1 %
Transfer Rate(Inner,Minimum) 　：　sustained 65.8 MB/s ／ burst 71.0 MB/s ＝ 92.7 %
Inner/Outer Ratio(Average,Smallest) ：　　46.7 %,　44.0 %　　／　　　　46.8 %,　43.7 %
Remarks　　　　　　　　　：　Outside[30/30,v0.13,a0.98] Inside[24/24,v0.24,a0.92]
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