I have been using an 80gb, 7200rpm, ultra ata 133, 2mb cache maxtor for a while.
I just purchased a WD 80gb, 7200rpm, ultra ata 100, 8mb cache because the price was right for me.
I wanted to decide if I should put the WD on my gaming/benchmarking rig, so I made a mirror copy of my complete Maxtor hard drive to my new WD hard drive. Then I ran a couple of simple bencharks on both.
The first test on each set is the Maxtor and the 2nd test is the WD.
I ran these tests a few times and pretty much came up with the same numbers, except for the cpu usage. The cpu usage for the WD got as high as 24%!! And it did this consistantly. While the maxtor stayed pretty much the same. Even though in pcmark 2002 the 8mb cache edged out the 2mb cache by a few points the other results may have more of an influence on me. Especially the cpu usage and read burst speed. Also not to mention that out of an 80gig hard drive I have 78 Gigs available from maxtor and only 74gigs available from WD.
In what way would the 8mb cache really outshine this maxtor? Is it supposed to be in gaming? I played a few of my games and noticed no difference? Would it be in copying large files? If someone knows of another free utility to use for benchmarking I would appreciate a link. Thanks.
nYmph
I just purchased a WD 80gb, 7200rpm, ultra ata 100, 8mb cache because the price was right for me.
I wanted to decide if I should put the WD on my gaming/benchmarking rig, so I made a mirror copy of my complete Maxtor hard drive to my new WD hard drive. Then I ran a couple of simple bencharks on both.
The first test on each set is the Maxtor and the 2nd test is the WD.
I ran these tests a few times and pretty much came up with the same numbers, except for the cpu usage. The cpu usage for the WD got as high as 24%!! And it did this consistantly. While the maxtor stayed pretty much the same. Even though in pcmark 2002 the 8mb cache edged out the 2mb cache by a few points the other results may have more of an influence on me. Especially the cpu usage and read burst speed. Also not to mention that out of an 80gig hard drive I have 78 Gigs available from maxtor and only 74gigs available from WD.
In what way would the 8mb cache really outshine this maxtor? Is it supposed to be in gaming? I played a few of my games and noticed no difference? Would it be in copying large files? If someone knows of another free utility to use for benchmarking I would appreciate a link. Thanks.
nYmph
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