Seagate, Samsung, WD, Hitachi 500GB SATA HDD Compared
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We compared the performance of ten different 500 GB SATA-300 hard disk drive models from Seagate, Samsung, Western Digital and Hitachi - Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 HDP725050GLA360, Samsung Spinpoint F1 DT HD502IJ, Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS, Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST3500320NS, Seagate SV35.3 ST3500320SV, Western Digital Caviar GP WD5000AACS, Western Digital Caviar SE WD5000AAJS, Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS, Western Digital RE2 WD5001ABYS and Western Digital RE3 WD5002ABYS. When buying a hard disk drive most users are only concerned with the drive's capacity. Should you also care about performance? We compared the performance of ten 500 GB SATA-300 hard disk drive models from Seagate, Samsung, Western Digital and Hitachi. Is there a big performance difference among them? Is it worthwhile to pay a little bit more and get a drive with a bigger buffer? If so, which is the fastest 500 GB in the market?
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Quelle: hardwaresecrets.com (E)
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