HDD testing

[DataMatrix]

perp? you mean Perpendicular?

I'm not 100% sure they'd need to be. That technology is clever, but not always fastest.

So you're saying that longitudinal can be faster than perpendicular?

[Zak33]

So you're saying that longitudinal can be faster than perpendicular?

sometimes, yes, though it varies from test ot test. I dont know for sure, but I'd guess it's to do with the fact that while the data is stored on the drive in a denser format, you still gotta READ it ...and thats done through the same channels on the read head.

Tech Report did a test on lads of drives and the Barracuda .10 was on test, and bear in mind it beat non perp technology a lot of times....every now and then this happened (this example on Doom3)


Now...that Caviar SE16 AND the Barracdua .10 are both perp technology...

Go figure, cos I can't. Both were slowest, and yet FarCry
it liked Perp technology.

However...I'd still say the AAKS is a lovely drive and it IS faster than the Enterprise drive. I just get the feling that WD haven't put it on their Enterprise drive yet...for a reason.

[DataMatrix]

Just because a few benchmarks say something doesn't mean they are right. Perpendicular technology is only just new...

[Zak33]

ok. true.