How bad is this compared to other hard drives?
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]
Sequential Read : 90.991 MB/s
Sequential Write : 87.806 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 29.846 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 37.980 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.338 MB/s [ 82.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.717 MB/s [ 175.0 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.589 MB/s [ 143.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.750 MB/s [ 183.1 IOPS]
Test : 1000 MB [C: 34.2% (203.7/596.2 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/09/21 21:47:34
OS : Windows Vista Ultimate Edition SP2 [6.0 Build 6002] (x64)
Right now a small SSD is very tempting for at least a paging drive as I can't afford to buy a 8gb ddr2 kit to have enough ram to disable the pagefile.
By the way the drive is a 640gb blue edition wd6400aaks
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]
Sequential Read : 90.991 MB/s
Sequential Write : 87.806 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 29.846 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 37.980 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.338 MB/s [ 82.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.717 MB/s [ 175.0 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.589 MB/s [ 143.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.750 MB/s [ 183.1 IOPS]
Test : 1000 MB [C: 34.2% (203.7/596.2 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/09/21 21:47:34
OS : Windows Vista Ultimate Edition SP2 [6.0 Build 6002] (x64)
Right now a small SSD is very tempting for at least a paging drive as I can't afford to buy a 8gb ddr2 kit to have enough ram to disable the pagefile.
By the way the drive is a 640gb blue edition wd6400aaks