So I just recently bought an 8mb 74 GB Raptor on these forums. It works great and I decided to see what it's made of by using HD Tach. I tested the raptor and got 127 mb/s burst with an average read of 65 mb/s. The seek was 7.6ms. Not knowing much about HD's, I think that's pretty good. I then test my Seagate 7200.10 320 GB SATA II HD (Perpendicular Recording) and got some pretty weird results. Can anyone explain this? Pictures below.
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/4246/raptor74jl8.jpg (Raptor)
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/8995/seagatexc8.jpg (Seagate 7200.10)
I know the raptor's random access is a lot better, but why is the burst so much better on the Seagate? Sorry if this seems stupid, I just thought these HD's were supposed to be a lot better.
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/4246/raptor74jl8.jpg (Raptor)
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/8995/seagatexc8.jpg (Seagate 7200.10)
I know the raptor's random access is a lot better, but why is the burst so much better on the Seagate? Sorry if this seems stupid, I just thought these HD's were supposed to be a lot better.