Performance Between Hard Drives

I was amazed by some very basic tests how 2 hard drives (Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB) of the same model can have such a difference in performance. The two drives I had were purchased at difference times but it shows for some reason the newer model is faster than the older one. The newer one also has been used a lot more but only by coincidence.

Whilst Benchmark scores are not always reflective of real life usage, I conducted this test because I thought one drive was drastically slower than another. I was amazed to find they were the same make and model drives. They both were tested using the same cable on the same port on the motherboard.

About Danny

I.T software professional always studying and applying the knowledge gained and one way of doing this is to blog. Danny also has participates in a part time project called Energy@Home [http://code.google.com/p/energyathome/] for monitoring energy usage on a premise. Dedicated to I.T since studying pure Information Technology since the age of 16, Danny Tsang working in the field that he has aimed for since leaving school. View all posts by Danny → This entry was posted in Hardware and tagged HHD, samsung, western digital, western digital caviar. Bookmark the permalink.

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