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Western Digital RaptorX WD1500AHFD 150GB Clear Top SATA Hard Drive Review
Western Digital RaptorX WD1500AHFD 150GB Clear Top SATA Hard Drive Review - PCSTATS
Western Digital alleviate the storage bottleneck with the 150GB WD1500AFHD RaptorX, a serial ATA hard drive with a clear window into its inner workings.
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External Mfg. Website: Western Digital Sep 04 2007   C. Sun  
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Benchmarks: Business Winstone 2004, SiSoft Sandra, HD Tach

Winstone 2004 Source: Zdnet

Business Winstone 2004 runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete these activities to produce its performance scores.

Business Winstone 2004:

AMD Athlon64 System Results

Points

Ranking

Western Digital Raptor WD740 HDD 27.5
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD4000KD HDD 25.1
Western Digital RaptorX WD1500AHFD HDD 32.7

Hard drive speed certainly makes a difference here in Business Winstone 2004. Not sure if a user would notice the bump, since these office application benchmarks are generally user limited.

SiSoft Sandra 2005 Source:Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2005 Storage Benchmark Results

Drives Drive Index: Buffered Read: Buffered Write: Random Read: Sequential Read: Random Write: Sequential Write: Average Access time:
Western Digital Raptor WD740 HDD

58

121

89

39

69

52

68

11

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD4000KD HDD

55

- -

43

62

45

62

9

Western Digital RaptorX WD1500AHFD HDD

72

132

88

55

83

57

80

6

Units:

MB/s MB/s MB/s MB/s MB/s MB/s MB/s milliseconds

The overall bandwidth results are very close between these two WD hard drives. Average access times differ a little, but the Western Digital RaptorX WD1500AHFD scores within a few MB/s. Results are virtually the same with and without NCQ enabled.

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 HDD 74GB

7.5

128.6

72

53

65

3

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD4000KD HDD

400GB

12.9

139.4

66

37

56.9

5

Western Digital RaptorX WD1500AHFD HDD 150GB

8.2

138.4

84.8

53

75

4

Units:

ms

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

%

The Western Digital RaptorX WD1500AHFD data read rates are very high, matching the Raptor's quite closely. When it comes to data access however, the Raptor and its 10,000 RPM spindle speed really makes a difference here. There is no difference in these results if NCQ is turned off.

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Contents of Article: Western Digital RaptorX WD1500AHFD
 Pg 1.  Western Digital RaptorX WD1500AHFD 150GB Clear Top SATA Hard Drive Review
 Pg 2.  Special SATA Cable a Software
 Pg 3.  — Benchmarks: Business Winstone 2004, SiSoft Sandra, HD Tach
 Pg 4.  Benchmarks: PCMark04, PCMark05
 Pg 5.  Gamers Benefit from a Fast Drive

 
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