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- Jan 7, 2008
So my netbook had a Seagate 5400 rpm 160 version 6 moneumentus drive it was pretty damn slow. average xfer was like 47mb..... I took apart a seagate free agent 320 external threw it in my netbook its also a 5400 so i was bummed out. But its a 7th gen Seagate moneumentus with 4k advance (which i thought did nothing for speed). Anyways this hd is benching way better all the numbers in crystal mark are signifigantly higher the disk part of windows index shot a half point, and the xfer according to hd tune on this drive is like 76mb/sec.
I remmber getting that kind of transfer rate on older desktop 7200rpm drives. Would investing in a new 7200 rpm drive give me much of a performance boost? Anyone got some hdtune and crystal mark number on a newer 2.5 7200rpm drive? Also any idea why the hell this 320 is benching way better? there both single platter drives only diffrence i can see is the 4k advance... maybe that does help when you use ntfs cuz ntfs is 4k cluster native?
I remmber getting that kind of transfer rate on older desktop 7200rpm drives. Would investing in a new 7200 rpm drive give me much of a performance boost? Anyone got some hdtune and crystal mark number on a newer 2.5 7200rpm drive? Also any idea why the hell this 320 is benching way better? there both single platter drives only diffrence i can see is the 4k advance... maybe that does help when you use ntfs cuz ntfs is 4k cluster native?