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Some HD benchmarks

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8/13/03 at 11:27am
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http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20030813/index.html

This should answer a few questions people have been having
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post #2 of 6
8/13/03 at 12:15pm
Which Hitachi 7200 RPM drives are we getting with our 8890s?
One seams better than the other.

"While Hitachi's Travelstar 7K60 looks the same as its E7K60, the E7K60 is designed for continuous, 24/7 operation" (Tom's Hardware Guide).

Are we getting the E7K60? I hope so because I plan on leaving my notebook on 24/7 so that I can download large files overnight and the such.
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post #3 of 6
8/13/03 at 10:31pm
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Originally posted by kp130000
Which Hitachi 7200 RPM drives are we getting with our 8890s?
One seams better than the other.
Actually, the E7K60 does have a serious drawback that continuous HD operation is very draining on the herd drive. Starting up the hard drive only when required will greatly improve battery life - and if the computer is going to behave that way most of the time, you want a drive designed to frequently stop and restart. Such as the 7K60, as opposed to the E7K60.

-phubar
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post #4 of 6
8/14/03 at 12:25am
regardless of the performance differences, do we know which one sager uses?
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post #5 of 6
8/14/03 at 12:37am
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Actually, the E7K60 does have a serious drawback that continuous HD operation is very draining on the herd drive. Starting up the hard drive only when required will greatly improve battery life - and if the computer is going to behave that way most of the time, you want a drive designed to frequently stop and restart. Such as the 7K60, as opposed to the E7K60.
How do you know that E7K60 is a continous HD operation? As I read from Tomshardware....

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While Hitachi's Travelstar 7K60 looks the same as its E7K60, the E7K60 is designed for continuous, 24/7 operation. The capability is well suited for notebooks, as well as for a large gamut of server systems for which performance is a secondary consideration.
I think he meant E7K60 is designed for a continuous (24/7) operation. It doesn't mean that this HDD will spin continuous (24/7).

Just my opinion.
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post #6 of 6
8/14/03 at 3:18pm
I didn't mean the E7K60 would spin continuously.

I was trying to say that 1) laptop HDs tend to be used in a start-and-stop fashion, especially if the laptop runs on batteries a lot, and 2) if that is the case,you want a drive desgined for that kind of stop-and-start usage.

If you have a "portable desktop" (basically a laptop without a battery), then you can count on always having the juice to spin the HD continuously, and a design optimized for continuous use might be better.

In any event, the difference between the two drives is probably minimal. The E7K60 will have a motor and bearings designed to endure extended continuous use while the 7K60 would have a motor and bearings optimized to survive repeated start-and-stop operation. The 7K60 probably spins up faster, since its intended use involves doing that far more frequently than the E7K60. Those may well be the only differences between the two drives.

-phubar
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