Interface Bandwidth And Access Time
Interface Bandwidth
This benchmark is used to verify the interface claims of drive manufacturers. Clearly, the Hitachi Travelstar 5K500 and 5K320 utilize Serial ATA 3 Gb/s, as they reach 160 MB/s. The Samsung Spinpoint M6 HM500LI stays at 127.7 MB/s, which is a good result for SATA 1.5 Gb/s, and it’s fast enough to prevent the interface from becoming a bottleneck.
Access Time
The Samsung HM500LI is as bad in the access time test as it was good in the data transfer benchmarks: 19 ms is a new record on the low side. However, the two Hitachi drives aren’t all that great either, at 18 and 18.5 ms.
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How can we rely on these benchmarks when you cant even get the drive specs right on the drive comparison page, you have the Samsung down as having 3 platters when it has 2 and you have it with 3Gb/s when it is really 1.5....really, we rely on sites like yours for desperatly needed FACTS, but if you cant get the basics right, might have to look elsewhere, DISAPPOINTING
"We looked at both the Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 and Samsung’s Spinpoint M6 HM500LI, which both provide this capacity, but also show very different characteristics."
You even quote it as a 7200rpm model on the first page, if you need a hand proof reading your work, let me know...........................