Newly released HITACHI Deskstar 5K3000 bench

[lawrence131]

Just got this new drive in, haven't seen any reviews yet so here's a quick HDTune Pro benchmark. Nothing special, specs list 5900RPM and it performs like a high density, low RPM drive. Decent transfer rates, bad random access times. Very quiet. Max Temp 32C during benchmark.

Connected to a standard ICH10 controller, AHCI mode, newest RST drivers.

 

[lawrence131]

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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)

 

[john4200]

Your HD Tune results look a lot different than these:

http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1036786099&postcount=2

But his CPU usage is -1.0%, so obviously HD Tune has some bugs.

I noticed that your HD tune scan looks clipped at the beginning -- like something is limiting your maximum speed.

 

[lawrence131]

i'm a noob - connected it first time to onboard JMicron controller which has already been shown to have this upper limit/clipping effect. Replugged it into Intel port so looks more appropriate now, but still getting slower access times than the other guy.