WD Raptor vs the World @ AnandTech

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited June 2004 in Science & Tech
AnandTech brings back hard drive reviews!
The biggest argument to why you would ever need a faster CPU is often that everything is disk limited anyways, so getting a faster CPU isn't the solution to your performance woes. While, to an extent, this is true, we have seen over the years that quite a few things are just as CPU bound as they are disk bound.

We've shown in the past that even very disk intensive operations, such as extracting a zip archive, can vary significantly with CPU. We've also shown that disk bound benchmarks, such as Winstone, can significantly reduce the performance benefit seen when upgrading to a faster CPU.
Submitted by: Leonardo

Source: AnandTech

Comments

  • LawnMMLawnMM Colorado
    edited June 2004
    Whats more fascinating is that they too, in addition to myself, actually still have an IBM 75gxp deathstar drive that still functions!
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited June 2004
    lol LawnMM...

    Im in the process right now of processing our RMA Drives... of the first 7 IBM Deadstar drives 5 failed with the click of death...


    Gobbles
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited June 2004
    i have one too :D
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