320GB 7200rpm WD Black Scorpio Benchmark

Finally got my WD 7K320 drives ... my original drive is a Fujitsu 5k160. I have included it here for comparison purposes.

Here the Fujitsu my system came with:




Here is my new WD 7K320:



Quite a difference, what you cannot see from the images is that under load the Fujitsu goes up to 49C (I took my snapshot after it had idled for a long time), the WD to 36 ...

With the Fujitsu, I got 10313 3DMarks out of the box. Will update this post once all my drives are installed

 

Where did you buy the drive and for how much?

 

directly at wdc.com - price was higher ($229.-) than whats now quoted at newegg, but at the time I ordered this was the only place it was available from ...

 

How are your Windows start up times?

 

Nice & Thanx

BTW 3DMark score have nothing to do with HDD performance. BTW I like to see windows boot time/Application load time benchmark results .

 

I wanted to ask you to run PCMark 05 but I see you are running Vista 64bit.

If anyone else knows some free application benchmarks please post. (not synthetic).

Edit: PC Mark Vantage can be run on Vista 64 bit. You can run it for free, once. The results would look like this:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3167&p=3

It would awesome if you would be willing to run it.
http://www.futuremark.com/download/pcmarkvantage/

 

I love to see my benchmark

I been wanting to buy the Hitachi 7k200 200 GB for along time, I guess now should is king of 7200 2.5" drive?

 

Seagate Momentus 7200.2 200 GB in my T61p :

 

Anybody have any idea how to get one of these in Canada? The WD site only ships to the US, as does Newegg. I can't seem to find it on ncix or tigerdirect.

 

Same! Especially when Ncix is selling 7k200 for $150....

/panic

 

Still want the Hitachi 7K320 Benchmark.....

 

Didnt the seagate 7200rpm 320gb drive get 69mb/sec or am I mistaken.
Usually WD performs the same as seagate.
I am also waiting for the hitachi 7k320 as hitachi usually outperforms the rest, but getting one is not on my horizion cause I need to buy a new motherboard

K-TRON

 

I was out partying and spent limited time on the new box. Here is my Raid 5 result:



Some people asked for real app benchmarks, and I think it was 3d vantage. Too late to do this now, but will try to get to it some time tomorrow. Without more tests I can give only my subjective experience: applications open much faster than before

Concerning the published performance of the 7K320 Scorpio, I was running it in "normal" mode, not AHCI ... no idea how much this would have improved performance.

The current graph is interesting, it really has two curves, one with an average speed above 100MB/sec (up to ca. 55%), the second one from 80 down to 60, with a pretty sharp transition between the two.

Did not have time to read up on what hd tunes % means and how it tests, so cannot give any interpretation. What I should mention though that when I installed the Intel Matrix Storage driver I left everthing set to the default value. Obviously striping size may have some major influence on the benchmark ...

 

Nice! I think it was PC Mark Vantage. (not 3d)

 

Does it make much noise?

Here's my WD 320g 5400rpm

 

No noise, no clicking, not with three of them. And speed close to top of the line SSD (of course single SSD vs raid-5 array), but 10x the amount of space and data security.

 

cyberanto can you please post vista experience rating score for a single wd 320g 7200 rpm.

thanks.

 

You're right it gets average transfer rate of 69,5. The average access time of 17.0 is a bit dissappointing though.

 

Whats the access time of the Hitachi 7k320 and transfer? Does the 7k320 have a free fall sensor of some sort?

 

Hitachi 7K320 16.2
WD 3200BEKT 15.9
Hitachi 7K200 14.6

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=270564

I don't know if Hitachi has freefall sensor.

 

Judging by those benchies... Hitachi Sucks compared to the two. Overall its gotta be WD for access time or Seagate for speed. Unless Samsung comes out with something.

Whats more important in this case? Speed or access time?

 

Judging by the HD Tune results the WD looks better than the Hitachi. But HD Tune results are synthetic benchmarks. Real life performance may be different. And these HD Tune results are run on different system, with different processes going on in the background...

They're both important, in a certain ratio. The ratio depends on what you're doing. For example: if you all you want to do is write large files to disk, write speeds are most important. But for loading a game fast, many small files have to be loaded, and access times become more important.

Each drive may the fastest in certain applications or situations. That's why I'm looking forward to benchmarks.

Another example: If you look at these benchmarks 7k200 against 7200.2, you'll see that each one is the fastest in specific situations. 7K200 wins in booting, but 7200.2 wins in database performance.

 

I just care about the overall. Since the Hitachi clearly doesn't have a free-fall sensor, I think I will just get a Seagate or WD 320 7200RPM. Since Dell uses the Seagate... I think I'll just wait for the Seagate to come out and snatch one since the WD also has slightly higher power requirements.

 

what would be the best 200GB 7k HDD then for mainly surfin the net, watchin/DL'in movies, and gaming?

 

Hitachi 7K200 is overall the best performing 200GB harddrive. Benchmarks. At the moment you can pick it up for $99 with rebates. Amazing deal.