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Vehementi



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Registered: February 2002
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Here's my WD Raptor compared to 3 other IDE drives.



Top Left - WD Raptor; 74GB, 8MB cache, 10,000RPM, SATA



Top Right - Samsung SP0411N; 40GB, 2MB cache 7,200RPM, EIDE



Bottom Right - WD Caviar SE; 120GB, 8MB cache, 7,200RPM, EIDE



Bottom Left - Seagate ST340810A; 40GB, 2MB cache, 7,200RPM, EIDE



What I don't understand is why all of the drives spike down like that. It's not even on partition transition points.
· Date: February 19, 2004 · Views: 52615
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CMH
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Registered: June 2005
Location: Aus
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May 28, 2006 19:22

This comparison is great.



However, I'm quite surprised that your Seagate ST340810 has outperformed your WD Caviar.



How are these drives tested? All of them recently reformatted, and still empty?
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Tmagic650
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September 6, 2006 20:08

WD sucks
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cfitzarl
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November 3, 2006 14:27

My WD Caviar SE works like a charm. Well, this is my second one. I stupidly didn't unplug/turn off the computer when hooking my hard drive in (case fans are almost silent) and the power cord (hard drive) sent a nice orb of electricity into the hard drive causing it to smoke. My fault though. Hmm, I did that a while ago.
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Alex2008
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November 1, 2007 07:45 Rating: 10 

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