HD Speed:

The HD Speed tests were also ran twice per hard drive with best results being noted in the graph. With these tests a thirteen-percent offset was used and each test was ran for sixty-seconds, for both read and write tests.

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Here we can see the detailed differences in read and write results between each drive using various block sizes. As we can see, the Samsung SpinPoint HD160JJ is nearly victorious is all tests once again, and is flawless against its competitors in write speeds.

HD Tach:

Like the others, these testes were run twice and the lowest results are shown. The program’s 32MB zone ‘Long Bench’ option was use for testing.

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From hard drive to hard drive, the HD Tach test results are the most consistent in this review. The 160 GB Western Digital Caviar SE SATA hard drive just slightly ekes out a win against the SpinPoint HD160JJ. While the 40GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 bested the others in both random access speed and CPU utilization.

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