Any 320GB 7200rpm owners willing to run PC Mark?

If you would have any chance of testing the 7K320 and WD3200BEKT on your system it would be

Maybe some new reviews will come up. I'm hoping for Storage review as they do the most thorough reviews.

 

Where is K-TRON, I think he has a 7k320.
I have a Seagate 160 7200.2 too, it came with the laptop, may be I'll swap it in and run some benchmark.

 

Several Vantage and PCMark scores for 7K320 and 3200BEKT in this thread:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=277623&highlight=7k320+benchmark

 

Han, I dont have my 7K320's.
Something came up, and my parents are driving up to my college next weekend with the harddrives.
I will test them then, I am really sorry that I couldnt give results earlier. I had the drives scheduled to arrive the day before I went on vacation (the week before college started), but the drives were coming from California, and their was a hurricane or something which caused the drives to arrive three days later than expected. There was nothing I could do to get them earlier. I provided hdtune benchmarks, and that was hard, being my brother is 8 yrs old, and I think installing pcmark would be very hard for him to do for me.

Next weekend for sure I will do benchies. I bought two drives, so I will do XP startup comparisons with PC mark, with one harddrive, and then one with raid 0 (over two drives), to get Raid comparisons.

I hope my 7K320's can do 9.7Mb/sec like Han's

K-TRON

 

No problem buddy, take your time I'm curious about that as well.

So mine beat two of them

Will have vantage up very soon.

 

That would be interesting. Especially if you could have the same Vista version (32 or 64) and performance settings as Andy used in the other thread.

 

I benched my own Seagate 7200.3 for you guys and can confirm Han´s results.
It´s a Clevo M570U (ICH7-M) platform with XP Prof Sp3:





BTW my drives firmware version is "SD13"

 

Well 'confirm'.. your results are a bit different, again. Now I've seen the following XP Startup Scores for the 7200.3: 7.8, 9.7, 9.9, 10.1 MB/sec.
While some of your scores are lower than Han's and 7K320 results.

Very strange. I've never seen such big differences when running PC Mark under XP.

 

but at least we know that the driver is way faster that what's tom's posted.

 

I'm not sure. It's not only Tom's Hardware who posted low scores for the 7200.3, it's also Techreport. In their benchmarks the 7200.3 has even trouble staying ahead of the WD Scorpio 5400rpm.

So who knows it may be due to controller issues, different version and firmwares or something else. I don't know.

As for now I would not know which 320GB/7200rpm drive is the fastest. It makes sense to base your buying decision on other cirteria: price, warranty, power consumption, noise and whether (you believe) you need a freefall sensor.

By the way Han, is your XP partition NTFS or FAT32?

 

Mine if NTFS...
I'm thinking Tom's might get a scrwed up HDD

BTW, I was having trouble to get vantage result. Sorry for the delay, I'll try to post it as soon as possible.

 

from my experience, Hitachi HDDs are always noisy and run hotter than others .. They have fast models though.

currently I like Seagate

just to share

 

Mine is also NTFS and one partition. What is your firmware revision Han?

 

Han, Prema, could you guys run PC Mark Vantage in Vista and post the results?

 

I'm not sure, how do I check it?

I tried it, got an advanced edition key from a friend and could only run the benchmark without details The HDD score was 4120!

Here is the new benchmark when I ran it again.




I challenge all the 7k320 and WD 320BEKT owners

 

Wow. Now waiting for 7200.4

 

Getting my 7k320's on Sunday, so hopefully Sunday night/Monday I will have benchies for you. Man, I hope the 7K320 does 10.063mb/sec, just so I can say I beat Han

K-TRON

 

Here are the benchmarks I got for the Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 and 7K320, respectively. I cloned the 200 to the 320 drive and then used that as primary harddisk, so this should be a rel. fair comparison. (Don't know, where the difference in CPU usage comes from, though... .)

BTW: Both of these disks run absolutely quiet, and I also did not experience any of the problems regarding heat or vibration that others have reported here...

 

Thanks wutz !
Wuahaha , my 7200.3 is still faster

 

****, you're right - I think I need to buy a new harddisk yet again...!!!

 

Does pc specs effect the results for PC Mark/Vantage?

 

For HDD??? I don't think so.

 

Wutz, the downward spikes indicate you have background processes running.

Also your acces time is too high for 7K320.

 

Waiting ur benchs. Considering to upgrade to 7k320 too.

 

@HAN

You can get the revision info by clicking on the "advanced" tab under the "System" section in PCMark05. It´s the last information on the page.

Mine says "Product Revision String SD13"

 

Here are some for WD. This is on a FRESH install. Hope to get Seagate and Hitachi if possible and test them with the same condition.

Score was 6061.