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Understanding Hard Drive Performance We compared the dated drive with the latest flagship model on our storage test system, but we also decided to copy the existing Windows XP installation onto the new drive. This provided direct performance comparison using SYSmark 2007. Finally, we installed Windows 7 and repeated the same tests.Although hard drives don't technically follow Moore's Law, they might as well. Every year it seems they get more capacity at lower prices. That was certainly true in 2009, and should continue in the foreseeable future. * Deskstar 7K2000... Among the vendors, there has been some consolidation among drive makers, with the market for drives effectively shrinking to five players: Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba (which acquired Fujitsu's hard drive business this year), Hitachi, and Samsung. Even this varies by market—Toshiba does not make desktop drives, while Seagate, Hitachi, and Fujitsu have dominated enterprise drives. Other vendors sell retail drives, but they buy the basic drives from one of these five and typically add their own software, case, and so on1. o TigerDirect We’ve written about hard drive performance several times: The bundled software used for uploading music, photos and videos to the iPod is called iTunes. Accelerate Your Hard Drive by Short Stroking: A performance analysis of short stroking, which reduces the head’s activity radius and capacity for the sake of improving I/O performance The iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Computer. Personal computers, the computer hardware familiar to most people, form only a small minority of computers (about 0.2% of all new computers produced in 2003) Market statistics. o Directron o Other World Computing This year, we're seeing more of a push for tiered storage, where data is split either manually or automatically among SSDs (for the most immediately needed data, often used almost like a cache), fast Fiber Channel drives (which are larger, and used for information that isn't used quite as often, but still needs to be accessible). And of course, many people are still archiving to tape. Other features getting more attention are




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