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Western Digital Raptor WD740 SATA Hard Drive Review
Western Digital Raptor WD740 SATA Hard Drive Review - PCSTATS
These are the first SATA drives we've seen that reach 10,000 RPM, and we're going to be testing them both singly and in a RAID stripe and mirror.
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Filed under: Hard Drives/SSD Published:  Author: 
External Mfg. Website: Western Digital Mar 09 2005   M. Dowler  
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Benchmarks: HDTach

HD Tach V3.0.1.0 Source: TCD Labs Inc.

HD Tach is a physical performance hard drive test for Windows 95/98/ME and Windows NT/2000. In Windows 9X/ME it uses a special kernel mode VXD to get maximum accuracy by bypassing the file system. A similar mechanism is used in Windows NT/2000/XP. HD Tach reads from areas all over the hard drive and reports an average speed. It also logs the read speeds to a text file that you can load into a spreadsheet and graph to visually read the results of the test.

Hard Drive Tach 3.0.1.0 - Benchmark Results

Physical Drive Size Access Time Read Burst Speed Read Speed Max Read Speed Min

Read
speed Avg

CPU utilization
Western Digital Raptor WD740 (single) 74GB

13.8ms

121.7

72

53

65.1

4%

Western Digital Raptor WD740 (RAID 0) 140GB

7.8ms

212.1

145

105

126.5

4%

Western Digital Raptor WD740 (RAID 1)

74GB

7.8ms

121.6

72

52

65.1

4%

Seagate Barracuda ST380013AS (single) 80GB

12.8

91.1

59

31

47.2

2%

Seagate Barracuda ST380013AS (RAID0)

160GB

12.5

112.1

110

61

84.9

4%

Seagate Barracuda ST380013AS (RAID1)

80GB

12.7

91.5

58

31

47.2

4%

Units:

ms

MB/s MB/s MB/s MB/s

%

Transfer Graph: Single Raptor WD740

Transfer Graph: Dual Raptor WD740 RAID 0 Stripe

Transfer Graph: Dual Raptor WD740 RAID 1 Mirror

Like Sandra, HDTach does not see a performance difference between lone and Mirrored RAID 1 drive configuration. The lone WD740 Raptor averages a 65.1MB/s sustained data read, which is great. This benchmark is overly kind to striped RAID 0 sets as opposed to single drives, so I would not expect to see a real-life 50% performance advantage from striping. Still the numbers for the Western Digital drives continue to be impressive.

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Contents of Article: Western Digital WD740 Raptor
 Pg 1.  Western Digital Raptor WD740 SATA Hard Drive Review
 Pg 2.  Technology and Specs
 Pg 3.  Benchmarks: Winstone 2004, Sandra 2005
 Pg 4.  Benchmarks: PCMark04, Winbench 99
 Pg 5.  — Benchmarks: HDTach
 Pg 6.  Benchmarks: IOmeter, Doom 3

 
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