EuroFight Posted April 8, 2013 Posted April 8, 2013 Hi everyone, I've just bought a new 2TB Seageate HDD (ST2000DM001) to replace my aging 250GB drive I currently have. What I want to ask is whether the performance between 7200.8 and 7200.14 is particularly great, and if I will notice it during boot, and if anybody has any experience with these drives, or similar (7200.14 and 64MB cache) so I know what to expect. Cheers guys Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted April 8, 2013 Posted April 8, 2013 I'd say there should be a noticeable speed increase. Your benefiting from generations of improvements as well as the greater platter densIty of the new drive Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d6bmg Posted April 9, 2013 Posted April 9, 2013 7200.14 are the latest drives from Seagate. You can't expect performance like SSD from a mechanical drive, but they are good enough at least the reviews say so. And I don't have 7200.14 So I can't give you any kind of first hand experience form my end. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroFight Posted April 9, 2013 Posted April 9, 2013 Okay cheers for the info guys, looking good then so far...now to wait for Amazon to dispatch the damn thing :tongue: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroFight Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 I recieved the drive today, and I'll run some before and after benchmarks (2 runs of CrystalDiskMark 2000MB). The tests will be run on a AMD 970 chipset using SATA 6GBPS connections. Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 (250GB): Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (2TB): Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
My_Inner_Fred Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 Looking forward to seeing the differences in the results... I don't think the differences will be too drastic. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroFight Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 I'll just let you see the results for yourself Fred. I was with you on this one, I didn't expect to see such a drastic change as can be seen in the benchmarks at all. Looks like there is a lot of benefit to be gained from using 7200.14 over 7200.8. Looking through an SSD benchmark thread here (I don't think we have one), it looks like the sequential write speed on the HDD is faster than many (single) SSDs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 Wow, those are pretty badass results... I'd be interested in seeing a benchmark (like HD Tune maybe) that will show the difference in access times Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroFight Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 My old hard disk is going into a new system build with similar specs to the current one (same motherboard and processor), so I'll run a benchmark when the parts arrive and post them up here if you want Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 I'd appreciate that my good man! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d6bmg Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 Wow! From your results, it looks like a great mechanical drive to me. I will look forward to HDTune results from your. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d6bmg Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 (edited) Double post. Edited April 11, 2013 by d6bmg Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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