Shootouts

500GB Portable (2.5-inch) HDD Shootout

By Vijay Anand - 6 May 2010

Results - HD Tune Pro 3.5

Results - HD Tune Pro 3.5

Tuning in to HD Tune's results where we got a better handle sequential/random read performance as well as access times. We had to forego write tests as it would completely wipe all existing data off the drive and we needed to return them back as they were provided. Since part of the write performance can be seen from CrystalMark, there's no big loss here for this class of drives.

Stating off with sequential read results, we found that they mimicked our findings from CrystalMark earlier. Random average read speeds were however a bit surprising as Verbatim didn't come out tops here, but rather Samsung did and was closely followed by Toshiba and Verbatim. Iomega was pulling up the rear once again, while Seagate and Hitachi had middling performance here. Suffice to say if you're going to be mostly reading and writing blocks of data continuously like large file copying, you would be more concerned with sequential performance.

Next up is sequential and random access times and we found both Iomega and Hitachi drives faring poorly compared to the rest here.

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