Benchmarks of my 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 :)

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Drive firmware: CC1G
Manufacture date: 21/09/2008

Some of the older firmwares have a known problem of the drive freezing for upto 30secs which freezes you computer too, which can mess up raid arrays, luckily my nice new 1 has a new firmware.

DO NOT MENTION COMPETITOR PRICING, sold my 2 * 750GB WD7500AAKS drives and upgraded to this faster single drive.

Drive seems quiet and fast, didnt have time to install windows on it to run pcmark and other benchmarks, had to transfer data from my 750gb drives so i could format them and post them off, hopefully someone else can do pc mark tests.

Very happy with my purchase as the speeds are rather nice as you can see, would prefer the seek times to be a bit quicker though.
 
I just got one of these. What sort of speed should I see if I hook it up to a SATA I controller?

Do you think I should partition it into 3 x 500G drives for ease of management?
 
dont bother with partitioning unless you are going to create a small partition for your windows installation. Mine is just a storage drive, got 2 * wd re3 drives in raid0 for o.s. Bledd, wasnt that expensive, only £20 more to pay after i sold my 2 * 750gb 7500aaks drives, worth it for the extra speed (105mb/s vs 82mb/s), plus i had no room in my case for 4 harddrives due to my radiator being in my kandalf case so had to have 1 drive sat onto of dvdwriter and vibrated a lot, now i just have 3 drives and all fit in the harddrive cage so its win win for me:) Seems very slightly quieter than the 7500AAKS drives it replaced too.

When the drive is on offer on places it actually is virtually the same GB per £ as a samsung f1 1tb, hopefully more manufacturers will release 1.5tb and 2.0tb drives soon.
 
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clocka said:
i added it using paint.NET to look 1337
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after a quick search on the net it does look the release group called NoPE cracked and released a pirated version of HDtune.
its guys like you who give pc users a bad name with piracey. if you could spend that much cash on a 1.5tb drive why cant you pull out the 15 quid to buy the software test the drive with, or even have some clue as to use the free version to post your benchmarks with.

bit silly you being caught red handed :rolleyes:
 
i added it in paint.net, if you can prove otherwise please do so, if not then please stop hijacking this thread with non-hdd benchmark related talk.
 
clocka said:
i added it in paint.net, if you can prove otherwise please do so, if not then please stop hijacking this thread with non-hdd benchmark related talk.
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Digging yourself deeper much?

The HD Tune you posted a screenshot of is cracked, you didn't add it in Paint.NET.

I really couldn't care less that you downloaded it, just stop trying to lie to get out of it.
 
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Sigh @ the piracy posts. I guess some people just enjoy dragging threads off-topic...

Thanks for the benchmarks, OP. I'm currently trying to decide between 1 TB and 1.5 TB (if I can get it for a decent price per gig) and this helps.

Though as I'll be just using it as a file store (my raptor for my system drive is still decent enough), I'm not hugely fussed about performance as long as it's not awful.
 
yeah, i managed to get it for a good price when it was on a 1day offer elsewhere, its dropped a lot over the last 1 month from £135 ish to £113 ish and an offer even less which when on offer just about equals the samsung f1 1tb with gb per £. Always better to have 1 drive instead of 2, less noise, heat, power and with 105mb/s read you cant complain:)

Would be nice if someone else could do pcmark benchmarks on their drive with o.s installed on it.
 
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dont bother with partitioning unless you are going to create a small partition for your windows installation. Mine is just a storage drive, got 2 * wd re3 drives in raid0 for o.s. Bledd, wasnt that expensive, only £20 more to pay after i sold my 2 * 750gb 7500aaks drives, worth it for the extra speed (105mb/s vs 82mb/s), plus i had no room in my case for 4 harddrives due to my radiator being in my kandalf case so had to have 1 drive sat onto of dvdwriter and vibrated a lot, now i just have 3 drives and all fit in the harddrive cage so its win win for me:) Seems very slightly quieter than the 7500AAKS drives it replaced too.

When the drive is on offer on places it actually is virtually the same GB per £ as a samsung f1 1tb, hopefully more manufacturers will release 1.5tb and 2.0tb drives soon.
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That depends - often the number of files on a large drive like this is high, thus it makes sense too as the time it takes to locate a file increases. The only way to reduce this is (a) cache the larger data or (b) break into smaller volumes.

Although this will result in one volume being faster due to the area of the drive it resides in.
 
Well my 1.5tb drive will be used mainly for archiving files (i.e. write once, read many) but I do like to have a 'working drive' for when I capture video / extract files / working on a project etc. By partitioning, I could have 3 x 500 and keep the first partition for the scratch disk , and the latter 2 partitions for install files / music/ etc. Keeping it to 500 means I can easily backup to a 500g volume elsewhere (of which I have 3 - 2x 500g interal and a 500g external)

Does that sound sensible?

(basically was gonna replace one of the 500g in my machine with this, get rid of my aging file server by storing the data on this + the data from the removed 500g, and using the other 500g as the system os disk. ) I only have 2 sata ports in on my board.
 
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