Siggy’s Rants

Alrighty. Here are some pictures of the hard drive as well as the computer it’s in and its specifications.

First, we start off with a top view of the drive.

And then the bottom.

Here’s the computer and desk layout that will be used for most, if not all, of the components I may review.

The machine itself is as follows:

Kingwin SK-523BK

Antec TruePower 430

Lite-On SOHR-5238S 52x CD-RW
Sony DW-Q30A 16x DVD-RW

Abit AN8-Ultra

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+

eVGA GeForce 7800GT

The performance results are in the previous post.

I’ve been pretty busy as of late with both classes and work, but I’ve had a chance to remote into my machine to get a couple of nice benchmarks for everyone to see. May as well pony up the goods!

As you can see, the performance is pretty nice, in all regards. CPU utilization is fairly low and raw read speeds are exceptional. Had these been even larger drives, I wouldn’t be surprised to see even higher speeds. In terms of read speed, these two drives are about on par with a 150GB Western Digital Raptor. Access times will always be higher, of course, but unless you’re running a computer in a server environment the gains will be minimal.

I should have some pictures of the drives themselves up pretty soon, so stay tuned! Unfortunately, they’re fairly plain. If you’ve seen one SATA drive, you’ve seen them all more or less. Raptor X excluded.