Samsung F1 320GB HDD test!

[w0mbat]

According to ur logic no one would care about hd3870xt, 9800gx2, 9800gt(x) and so on cause we already know how they will perform -.-

[MpG]

And have we really been surprised yet?

[mstp2009]

According to ur logic no one would care about hd3870xt, 9800gx2, 9800gt(x) and so on cause we already know how they will perform -.-

Bad analogy (not surprising who it is coming from).

Those do not scale LINEARLLY.

Adding platters to a drive doesn't improve performance, just adds space. The drive only reads from one platter at a time, and therefore the platter transfer rates are virtually identical.


Therefore, if you know how one of the 334GB/platter drives performs, you know how the whole series using those platters will perform.

[Syn.]

Bad analogy (not surprising who it is coming from).

Those do not scale LINEARLLY.

Adding platters to a drive doesn't improve performance, just adds space. The drive only reads from one platter at a time, and therefore the platter transfer rates are virtually identical.


Therefore, if you know how one of the 334GB/platter drives performs, you know how the whole series using those platters will perform.

Very bad analogy especially as he calls the 3870 an hd3870xt lol.

Its nice to see that they are moving to single platters which should have some kind of performance gain compared multi-platter, pretty small i guess.

However i want to know how does this drive compare to Raptor and all drive reviews should have a Rapor as reference point so we know how far the 7200rpm drives have developed.

[czajunia]

Therefore, if you know how one of the 334GB/platter drives performs, you know how the whole series using those platters will perform.

It seems logical and that's exactly what I thought... Until... New WD 320 and 640 drives turned up. Why is there such a big difference in access times between the two? I suppose this only confirms that it's best to bench specific drives and do not draw conclusions for the whole family based on a specific drive performance.