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TESTING

 

While the E5K100 is designed for use in laptop computer you can be certain that a large number of them will find their way into Mini-ITX systems for use with Home Theater PCs. That is exactly what we intend to do with this drive.  As a comparison we have added two benchmarks for the Hitachi 7K60 hard drive which I have been using for a about a year now.  The thing that is so striking about the two drives is they are the size, both have 8 MB buffer but the 7K60 has a spindle speed of 7,200 rpm whereas the E5k100 is only rated at 5,400 yet it still come very close to matching the numbers produced by the faster drive.

 

Test Setup

• i845GVD motherboard

• 512 MB PC-3200 DDR

• Intel Extreme Graphics

• Hitachi E5K100 Hard Drive

 

HD TACH

 

"HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives (ZIP/JAZZ), flash devices, and RAID arrays. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and other low level Windows interfaces to bypass as many layers of software as possible and get as close to the physical performance of the device possible.