Latest Generation 15K SCSI HDD Roundup

• Seagate Cheetah 15K.3
• Fujitsu MAS3735NP
• Maxtor Atlas 15K

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Maxtor HDD performed very vividly everywhere. Due to small access time value the drive worked perfectly well in patterns imitating the disk subsystem workload, such as File- and WebServer. At the same time, the synthetic SequentialWrite pattern revealed its low speed during write requests processing. Atlas 15K proved especially slow with U160 controller and small data blocks.

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Fujitsu HDD performed not bad at all: it worked very fast in DataBase pattern, which indicates excellent firmware algorithms. At the same time, the results in DataBase got pretty low when the HDD worked with U320 controller. The same performance drop could be observed in File- and WebServer patterns. Hopefully they will eliminate this drawback in the firmware of mass drives.

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Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 yielded to its younger rivals from Maxtor and Fujitsu in most benchmarks. I think that it is the optimization for higher workloads that caused this failure today.