Normalized Results: Performance, Power And Efficiency
On this page, all performance charts are normalized to the level of the Spinpoint T166 (= 100%), which is the two year old drive. This allows us to get a quick overview on the individual improvements of the two EcoGreen 5,400 RPM drives, compared to the 7,200 RPM model.
Normalized Performance Results
We created a little performance index for the three drives, weighting throughput performance at 50%, PCMark Vantage performance at 25% and I/O and access time performance at 25%.
Clearly, the first EcoGreen drive at 5,400 RPM manages to at least maintain the overall performance results of the older Spinpoint T166. The F2 EcoGreen introduces more performance, which results in a better desktop performance result.
Normalized Power Requirement Results
This chart repeats the drive power requirement at idle after 10 minutes of inactivity, but presents the results normalized to the level of the Spinpoint T166 (100%). The 5,400 RPM EcoGreen models only require roughly 60% of the power.
The results are similar for streaming at maximum data rates.
Obviously, the Spinpoint F2 EcoGreen is more efficient with limited streams of data, as it did better than the other drives.
Normalized Efficiency Results (Performance per Watt)
A 100% increase in power efficiency for the latest low power hard drive generation is quite a nice result.
Since performance didn’t increase for workstation-like I/O operations, efficiency could only increase due to the drastically reduced power requirements. The T166 drive is faster in this benchmark, but the two EcoGreens are much more efficient at work.
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"Most people don’t think about Samsung when they talk about hard drives"
How do you figure that?
How about you test these drives with the AAM(AUTOMATIC ACOUSTIC MANAGEMENT) turned off?
I'm pretty sure it will be quite an interesting benchmark.
Though it is a very informative article, I find the temperature measurement for the T166 (500gb) drive inconsistent with my own T166. Using SMART drive information, it runs idle at 31C. Not 45C.
Wow good article
buth i need a help too.
i wan't to buy a new HDD and i need help to decide wich form the two HDD it's the best: HE103UJ (7 years worrantin) or WD1002FBYS (8 years warrentin) :|
Someone can help me ? the hdd i will use it for storrage or for run the OS (Vista/Windows 7 x64)
I have the 2007 and 2008 model, and I want to get their 2009 1.5TB 7200RPM model at some point, as well as an SSD (possibly Samsung). I'm a bit of a storage geek, and, from where I sit, Samsung is the best storage solution.
Nice guide, handy for those looking for HDDs.
I like WD
i use western digital, simply because, i've got a sammy 1.5TB on RMA for the 4th time since i got the drive a few months ago, whereas the WD i got at the same time (a 1tb drive) is still chugging away. i've had several sammys die, never lost a WD in 5 years.
There is now a 512 gigabyte SSD from Toshiba and Super Talent.
I agree with anon, I also have had 4 Samsung drive failures. Price performance is irrelevent when reliability is compromised. I am going back to Seagates.