Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS Hard Disk Drive Review

How We Tested

During our tests we used the configuration listed below and the only variable component between each benchmarking session was the hard disk drive being tested. We also build a RAID0 array with two Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160 GB (ST3160815AS, SATA-300, 7,200 rpm, 8 MB buffer) hard disk drives with the ICH9R south bridge chip from the motherboard we were using (ASUS P5K-E/WiFi-AP, which is based on Intel P35 chipset), using the recommended strip size, 128 KB.

Hardware Configuration

CPU: Core 2 Duo E6600
Motherboard: ASUS P5K-E/WiFi-AP (1013 BIOS)
Memory: 2 GB Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048-8500C5D (DDR2-1066/PC2-8500 with 5-5-5-15 timings), configured at 1,066 MHz
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB
Video resolution: 1440x900 75 Hz
Video Monitor: Samsung Syncmaster 932BW
Power Supply: OCZ ProXStream 1000 W
CPU Cooler: Thermaltake TMG i1
Optical Drive: LG GSA-H54N

Software Configuration

Windows XP Professional using NTFS file system
Service Pack 3
Intel Inf driver version: 8.3.1.1009
nVidia video driver version: 169.21

Benchmarking Software

We adopted a 3% error margin. So, performance differences below 3% cannot be considered meaningful. In other words, products where the performance difference is below 3% must be considered as having similar performance.

Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS Hard Disk Drive Review
By Gabriel Torres on June 19, 2008	Page 2 of 5
How We Tested During our tests we used the configuration listed below and the only variable component between each benchmarking session was the hard disk drive being tested. We also build a RAID0 array with two Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160 GB (ST3160815AS, SATA-300, 7,200 rpm, 8 MB buffer) hard disk drives with the ICH9R south bridge chip from the motherboard we were using (ASUS P5K-E/WiFi-AP, which is based on Intel P35 chipset), using the recommended strip size, 128 KB. Hardware Configuration CPU: Core 2 Duo E6600 Motherboard: ASUS P5K-E/WiFi-AP (1013 BIOS) Memory: 2 GB Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048-8500C5D (DDR2-1066/PC2-8500 with 5-5-5-15 timings), configured at 1,066 MHz Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB Video resolution: 1440x900 75 Hz Video Monitor: Samsung Syncmaster 932BW Power Supply: OCZ ProXStream 1000 W CPU Cooler: Thermaltake TMG i1 Optical Drive: LG GSA-H54N Software Configuration Windows XP Professional using NTFS file system Service Pack 3 Intel Inf driver version: 8.3.1.1009 nVidia video driver version: 169.21 Benchmarking Software DiskSpeed32 3.0.0.5 HD Tach 3.0.4.0 HD Tune 2.55 We adopted a 3% error margin. So, performance differences below 3% cannot be considered meaningful. In other words, products where the performance difference is below 3% must be considered as having similar performance.
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