Seagate 7200.12 1TB

[Blieb]

http://www.colamco.com/store/p...il.aspx?product=834602

In stock (was out of stock until this week) ... I ordered 2 ... just got an email that they shipped ...

Wish me luck!

 

[MyLeftNut]

Site is down, how much did they cost?

 

[Blieb]

$114 ea ...

2 for $245 with tax (FL) & free shipping

 

[Blieb]

I was a little hesitant ordering from Colamco ... ordered late on 3/23 ... got here this afternoon ...

7200.12! wheeeeeeee!

I'm running them normal until I do some tests ... then I'll run them in RAID 1 ...

 

[Elixer]

Originally posted by: Blieb
I was a little hesitant ordering from Colamco ... ordered late on 3/23 ... got here this afternoon ...

7200.12! wheeeeeeee!

I'm running them normal until I do some tests ... then I'll run them in RAID 1 ...

How did they ship the drives?
Was the packing good?

 

[Blieb]

The site says UPS or FedEx ... Mine was shipped FedEx ground out of Chicago.

There was one large box with 2 small boxes inside.
There was brown paper filling so the the boxes fit snug.
Inside the smaller boxes was black plastic hard drive molding.
Each drive was snugly wrapped in anti static bag.

Everything had security tape on it.

I prefer the air bags ... but I ordered some stuff from newegg and it came with brown paper too ... guess that's the new gold standard :

Few pics:
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I'll post HD Tune specs later today ... front of drive reading around 125mb/s ... rear is mid 70's ... (running HD Tune full scan) ...

They both passed the Seagate Tools Generic Long test.

 

[Blieb]

Disk scan is finished ...

Ran them both at the same time ...

disk_scan.jpg

"Scanning speed" started fast, then slowed down ... but when the scan finished, it showed a high scan speed. I divided the scan time by MB ... more accurate?

953488 mb / 9556 seconds = 99.77 mb/sec scan
953488 mb / 9701 seconds = 98.28 mb/sec scan

I ran them at the same time ... will run benchmark later ...

 

[Blieb]

Benchmark ... ran both at same time ...

disk_benchmark.jpg

System is:
Asus P5N-E SLI
4gb ram
512mb video XT1980
250gb 7200.10 main drive
2 x 1tb 7200.12 drives

 

[n7]

Nice results.

 

[graysky]

@blieb - can you run hdparm on LINUX? It is a more accurate way to benchmark HDDs. You can use a live LINUX CD that doesn't make any changes to your HDD to do this.

Get the ISO of Ubuntu version 8.10 and then simply boot from it. The first option you'll see is, "try ubuntu without making any changes to your PC" which you should select. Once the desktop loads up, go to accessories>console which will open up a shell. From there you simply type the following to run the benchmark:

sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sda

sda = disk 1
sdb = disk 2
sdc = disk 3

You should run it 4 or 5 times (it is quick) and average them together.

For example, here is the output on my 7200.11 (750 GB) seagate:

hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 15880 MB in 2.00 seconds = 7952.77 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 344 MB in 3.01 seconds = 114.19 MB/sec

 

[Blieb]

They are setup for RAID 1 now ... will it give the right results?

http://hdparm-win32.dyndns.org/hdparm/??

 

[wjgollatz]

I have the 500Gb single platter one. How do you do your test? I have a lot more spikes than your test, no so many flat plateaus.

 

[Blieb]

I dunno man ... I just ran the tests ...

I wasn't running any other progs ...

System is:
Asus P5N-E SLI
4gb ram
512mb video XT1980
250gb 7200.10 main drive
2 x 1tb 7200.12 drives
Vista Ultimate 64 ...


Is your 500gb the only drive in the box?

 

[zlejedi]

They look to have slightly improved tragic random acess times of the 500 GB version.
Still I'd rather get one of the fast 333 platter drives.

 

[wjgollatz]

Yeah - only one hard drive. You can change the test parameters and it can change the results, from the size of the reads to the length of the test, and the longer the test the more accurate. Also turn off screen savers - I think it will cause a down spike. The freeware portion of that program only reads.

 

[Binky]

It definitely looks less spikey, as mentioned above by wjog...

Here's my 500gb for comparison.
http://img17.imageshack.us/img...898/st3500410asqz5.jpg

I've been very happy with the 500gb version. It's very fast in the system and it runs extremely quiet.

 

[graysky]

Originally posted by: Blieb
Benchmark ... ran both at same time ...

disk_benchmark.jpg

System is:
Asus P5N-E SLI
4gb ram
512mb video XT1980
250gb 7200.10 main drive
2 x 1tb 7200.12 drives

Something's not right w/ that burst rate... should be well over 200 :/