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Seagate 400GB Insane Performance.

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So I was fooling around with some hd benchmarks and noticed something strange. My Seagate 7200.8 400GB PATA drive outperforms my MaxLine III 250 by a nice margin. But according to one HDtach score I got, the Seagate had a beginning transfer rate of 70Mb/s :eek: . That's raptor territory, but Sisoft Sandra confirmed it. Here are some pics. I had 6ms access time on the seagate once too.

Seagate:
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Maxtor:
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So what's going on here? I also tried disabling NCQ on the maxtor and got the same results.
 
Sandra is a bad benchmark for drives. Its results are nonrepeatable, inconsistent with everyone else's, and measure odd things. Try HDTach or IOMeter and see how your results are then.

 
With 133GB platters against the Maxtor's 100GB platters, and equal spindle speed, the Seagate should deliver higher transfer rates. Application level performance is what matters. However, best in class dnesity and by extension transfer rates make the Seagate drives an excellent choice for media storage work :cool:
 
It might be useful to mention i'm running xp64.. and my hdtach confimed the sandra result. LOOOOwwwwww access time. Does that correlate?
 
7 ms is definitely NOT right. Even Seagate themselves claim an 8 ms access time. 7 ms is what you would see on 10k RPM drives, and this can only be improved by physical enhancements like faster spindle speed, or shorter heads and smaller-diameter platters--and the Barracuda lacks both.
 
Maybe he has some 1 in a million uber drive that was actually a misplaced from a secret testing bed deep within a black ops military research base, aided by alien technology and inborn desire in the drive to achive that which no other of its kind have.. :eek:
 
Maybe he has some 1 in a million uber drive that was actually a misplaced from a secret testing bed deep within a black ops military research base, aided by alien technology and inborn desire in the drive to achive that which no other of its kind have..
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I think he has a point. It's the same people who made a 6.8 ghz quantum cpu. I've seen it with my third eye. :rolleyes:
 
Guys, don't jump all over him. It's not like he's boasting. In fact he's questioning whether the results correlate. Don't ruin an otherwise fine thread.
 
^Thank You

But it seems something is probably wrong with xp64. If you look at the statistics, all of the benches are lower on the seagate, but the access time is just strange...
 
Most of the data I've seen on 7200.8 suggests a seek time of around 9ms and a latnecy of 4.2ms, so the actual accesstiem figure should be in the neighborhood of 13.2ms, give or take .5ms.
 
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