How many mb/sec can 7200 rpm drives support??

[Deleted member 1680777]

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Thanks

 

[DataMedic]

About 228Mb/s sequential read for some enterprise drives. These chart might be helpful:

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/enterprise-hdd-charts/-01-Read-Throughput-Average-h2benchw-3.16,3373.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/enterprise-hdd-charts/-01-Read-Throughput-Average-h2benchw-3.16,3373.html

But don't expect your off the shelf WD SATA piece of crap home hard drive to hit that speed. There's a lot more factors related to hard drive speed than RPM. That's just one small factor. A higher density 5900 RPM drive might perform 3 to 4 times faster than another lower density 7200 RPM drive.

RPM's aren't everything any more than GHz are for CPU ratings.

 

[InvalidError]

My 1TB WD Black peaks at 200MB/s on the outer tracks and bottoms out around 140MB/s for sequential reads.

 

[Deleted member 1680777]

About 228Mb/s sequential read for some enterprise drives. These chart might be helpful:

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/enterprise-hdd-charts/-01-Read-Throughput-Average-h2benchw-3.16,3373.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/enterprise-hdd-charts/-01-Read-Throughput-Average-h2benchw-3.16,3373.html

But don't expect your off the shelf WD SATA piece of crap home hard drive to hit that speed. There's a lot more factors related to hard drive speed than RPM. That's just one small factor. A higher density 5900 RPM drive might perform 3 to 4 times faster than another lower density 7200 RPM drive.

RPM's aren't everything any more than GHz are for CPU ratings.

1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue hard drive is what i have how much do you think????

 

[Deleted member 1680777]

My 1TB WD Black peaks at 200MB/s on the outer tracks and bottoms out around 140MB/s for sequential reads.

Thanks!

 

[InvalidError]

I also have a WD Blue. That one peaks at 140MB/s and bottoms out at 80MB/s, which is still fairly respectable.

For most everyday applications though, access time is what makes the most difference. In that case, you would be best off with an SSD.

 

[Deleted member 1680777]

I also have a WD Blue. That one peaks at 140MB/s and bottoms out at 80MB/s, which is still fairly respectable.

For most everyday applications though, access time is what makes the most difference. In that case, you would be best off with an SSD.

I have a ssd im just wondering how many mb per second for recording i can do for the drive

 

[fzabkar]

Run a HD Tune read benchmark against the drive. The curve should be smooth and monotonically decreasing. The outermost tracks should have a sustained transfer rate of about twice that of the innermost tracks. The actual transfer rate will depend on the RPM and number of bits per track (data density).

You can determine the number of heads, and therefore the data density, by running a shortstroked HD Tune benchmark.

How to determine number of heads using HD Tune:
http://malthus.mooo.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=650&p=1796