- Jan 9, 2010
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In the never ending quest for more storage for digital image and video files, my hard drives keep getting bigger and bigger. The most recent purchase was an HGST 4TB Deskstar Coolspin hard drive. I got it solely to be used as a storage drive with GPT partitioning.
I ran some tests on my SATA II motherboard with CrystalDisk Mark for the heck of it and was a bit surprised by the results. The Sequential Read/Write Test for the 5400 RPM HGST 4TB drive were 112.2/110.8 Mb/s. My 2TB Samsung HD204UI 5400 RPM drives came in at 103.1/101.3 Mb/s and the biggest surprise, my 7200 RPM WD RE4 1TB drives could only manage 88.36/85.75 Mb/s, the slowest of them all. The HGST Deskstar also runs very cool. During a couple hour long file transfer, the temperature never went over 25°C.
I'm hoping the Deskstar turns out to be a reliable drive and I won't need to use any of the three year warranty.
I ran some tests on my SATA II motherboard with CrystalDisk Mark for the heck of it and was a bit surprised by the results. The Sequential Read/Write Test for the 5400 RPM HGST 4TB drive were 112.2/110.8 Mb/s. My 2TB Samsung HD204UI 5400 RPM drives came in at 103.1/101.3 Mb/s and the biggest surprise, my 7200 RPM WD RE4 1TB drives could only manage 88.36/85.75 Mb/s, the slowest of them all. The HGST Deskstar also runs very cool. During a couple hour long file transfer, the temperature never went over 25°C.
I'm hoping the Deskstar turns out to be a reliable drive and I won't need to use any of the three year warranty.
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