Seagate SATA Barracuda ATA V (5)
Overclocker 28 Nov 2002

Benchmarking

Our test environment :

• Intel Celeron 1.2G
• FIC FS35T
• 256M SDRAM
• Seagate Barracuda IV 20G IDE ST31200A in FAT32
• Seagate Barracuda V 120G SATA ST320029AS in FAT32

We will be running 4 popular HD benchmarking programs on the two drives.

• ATTO Disk Benchmark
• HD-Tach 2.61
• Sisoft Sandra 2003 File System Benchmark
• ZDnet Winbench99

Sisoft Sandra 2003

From the two charts, we see that the difference in the benchmark results differ by around 1000KB/s. This is esp the case when it is used in buffered wriet. In Fig 2, we see that the SATA drive (which is in FAT32) is not as fast as a IDE drive using NTFS.

Fig 1 : IDE HD ST32100A

Fig 2 : SATA HD : ST320029AS

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