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Hitachi Deskstar 1TB 7K1000
Last updated
June 01, 2009
The Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 is a solid performer, but about 30% slower than the Western Digital RE3 on sustained transfers across the drive. However, it was a top performer in Photoshop tests on the MacBook Pro, showing that the particular workload and hardware involved can lead to very different conclusions.
When seeking, it is noticeably louder than Seagate 1TB models, but on par with the Western Digital RE3. While I didn’t experience it, a reader reports that the Hitachi sometimes has the same noisy behavior after heavy access as the Westen Digital RE 3; see details there.
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Test mule: MacPro quad-core 3.0GHz
SATA card: Sonnet E4P
Enclosure: FirmTek SeriTek 2eEN4
Driver: SoftRAID 3.6.7
Drive model: 0A35155
Build date: Oct-2008
# single drive
$ disktester run-area-test -i 3 -c 1M -t 1G HitachiDeskstar
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:25:02 PM PT, volume "HitachiDeskstar" (931.2GB)
---------- Write Details for "HitachiDeskstar" (1GB/1MB, 3 iterations) ---------
Area (929.1GB) Slowest Median Fastest Average Range
0% 82.5 83.3 83.4 83.0 0.84
10% 82.5 82.6 83.5 82.9 0.97
20% 82.5 83.2 83.2 82.9 0.74
30% 78.5 78.7 79.4 78.9 0.83
40% 77.2 77.2 77.4 77.3 0.18
50% 70.6 70.7 70.7 70.7 0.07
60% 66.7 66.8 66.9 66.8 0.22
70% 62.8 62.9 63.5 63.1 0.67
80% 55.0 55.5 55.5 55.4 0.54
90% 51.2 51.2 51.6 51.3 0.41
100% 41.4 41.4 41.4 41.4 0.07
---------- Read Details for "HitachiDeskstar" (1GB/1MB, 3 iterations) ----------
Area (929.1GB) Slowest Median Fastest Average Range
0% 77.9 81.8 82.1 80.6 4.25
10% 81.7 82.2 82.2 82.0 0.51
20% 81.6 82.1 82.2 82.0 0.61
30% 77.7 78.3 78.3 78.1 0.56
40% 75.8 75.8 76.3 76.0 0.47
50% 70.5 70.5 70.5 70.5 0.00
60% 66.5 66.5 66.5 66.5 0.00
70% 62.2 62.2 62.6 62.3 0.43
80% 54.4 54.4 54.8 54.6 0.36
90% 50.6 50.6 50.9 50.7 0.32
100% 40.9 40.9 41.1 41.0 0.21
------------ Averages for "HitachiDeskstar" (1GB/1MB, 3 iterations) ------------
Area (929.1GB) Write MB/sec Read MB/sec
0% 83.0 80.6
10% 82.9 82.0
20% 82.9 82.0
30% 78.9 78.1
40% 77.3 76.0
50% 70.7 70.5
60% 66.8 66.5
70% 63.1 62.3
80% 55.4 54.6
90% 51.3 50.7
100% 41.4 41.0
Average write speed across the volume: 68.5MB/sec
Average read speed across the volume: 67.7MB/sec
# 4-drive stripe
$ disktester run-area-test -i 3 -c 1M -t 4G ht4
====== Saturday, November 15, 2008 9:20:27 AM PT, volume "ht4" (3.64TB) ======
---------------- Write Details for "ht4" (4GB/1MB, 3 iterations) ---------------
Area (3.63TB) Slowest Median Fastest Average Range
0% 331 332 333 332 2.50
10% 331 331 333 332 1.94
20% 331 333 333 332 2.82
30% 314 318 318 317 3.26
40% 306 307 309 307 2.89
50% 286 286 286 286 0.17
60% 270 270 270 270 0.43
70% 252 254 254 253 2.05
80% 221 221 223 222 1.67
90% 205 206 207 206 1.17
100% 188 188 189 188 1.51
---------------- Read Details for "ht4" (4GB/1MB, 3 iterations) ----------------
Area (3.63TB) Slowest Median Fastest Average Range
0% 326 327 328 327 2.18
10% 257 288 328 291 71.45
20% 325 326 328 326 2.82
30% 304 313 313 310 8.69
40% 303 305 305 304 2.28
50% 279 279 279 279 0.29
60% 263 264 264 264 0.57
70% 248 249 250 249 1.56
80% 217 217 219 218 1.82
90% 202 202 203 203 1.34
100% 180 187 188 185 7.97
------------------ Averages for "ht4" (4GB/1MB, 3 iterations) ------------------
Area (3.63TB) Write MB/sec Read MB/sec
0% 332 327
10% 332 291
20% 332 326
30% 317 310
40% 307 304
50% 286 279
60% 270 264
70% 253 249
80% 222 218
90% 206 203
100% 188 185
Average write speed across the volume: 277MB/sec
Average read speed across the volume: 269MB/sec
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