Should I keep this 7200RPM drive?

[mjcooke]

I recently purchased an OCZ 64GB SSD for a boot drive, and a new Samsung SpinPoint F4 2TB drive for data. I still have my older Segate 320GB 7200 RPM drive, which was "high end" at the time. Since the SpinPoint is only 5400rpm, I was planning to keep the 7200RPM drive for apps. However, CrystalDisk shows the 5400RPM drive outperforming the 7200RPM drive on almost every test.

Do you think I should just dump the Segate, or is there more to the picture? Are these benchmarks pretty much all I need to consider?



SpinPoint
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 78.580 MB/s
Sequential Write : 74.441 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 31.629 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 26.988 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.416 MB/s [ 101.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.591 MB/s [ 144.2 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.613 MB/s [ 149.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.600 MB/s [ 146.6 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [D: 40.0% (48.0/119.8 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2011/01/25 15:21:10
OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x64)





Seagate
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 67.032 MB/s
Sequential Write : 65.226 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 26.161 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 26.467 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.347 MB/s [ 84.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.664 MB/s [ 162.2 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.596 MB/s [ 145.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.680 MB/s [ 165.9 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [F: 19.2% (34.1/178.0 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2011/01/25 15:32:05
OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x64)

 

[pjkenned]

Use it as a backup drive?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Get an external enclosure for it.

 

[SickBeast]

What I would do, personally, is to use the 320gb drive for your games, and the 2tb drive for your archival storage (media, files, etc.).

You could short stroke the drive you'll put the games on as well.

 

[bryanl]

Only 1 backup? Unthinkable!

 

[yottabit]

I like to keep drives like this around personally... I just built another rig with some parts I had lying around and threw my old WD 250 gb SATA in there. Although it's amazing the speed difference the more modern hard drives make. I went from a 250 GB 7200 RPM Caviar from ~2005 to a 1 TB 7200 RPM Caviar Blue and my max sustained transfer rate went from about ~60 MB/s to ~140

I also just replaced a 320 GB 5400 RPM drive in my laptop that did ~35-40 MB/s to a 500 GB 7200 RPM that will do ~60

 

[OS]

i am rusty but the new bigger drive should be faster, supposedly higher areal density is more performance also

 

[mjcooke]

So i replaced my crappy motherboard as part of a larger upgrade, and the disks are running a lot faster now. That being said, the Samsung has even a bigger gap over the Segate than before. The 7200rpm segate has a legs up on random reads, and the Samsung is signifigantly faster on everything else. For an app data / game drive, what do you think is more important?

Segate:


Sequential Read : 82.715 MB/s
Sequential Write : 80.283 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 39.870 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 33.410 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.595 MB/s [ 145.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.944 MB/s [ 230.5 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 1.065 MB/s [ 260.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.928 MB/s [ 226.6 IOPS]


Samsung:


Sequential Read : 135.300 MB/s
Sequential Write : 133.662 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 41.624 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 59.187 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.459 MB/s [ 112.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.138 MB/s [ 277.9 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.981 MB/s [ 239.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.157 MB/s [ 282.4 IOPS]
Test : 1000 MB [E: 12.5% (232.4/1863.0 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2011/01/30 16:26:35
OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x64)