Hacking the Seagate 1.5TB Drive to turn it into a Velociraptor Killer

jmke · 22nd July 2009, 10:44

Today our at home hardware hacker Artiom shows us how to turn the 1.5TB storage monster into a high performance drive that takes the performance crown away from the Western Digital Velociraptor. Don't think it can be done? We assure you it can, and we show you how. You too can buy a half priced drive and get top end performance.

http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/

22nd July 2009, 13:30

I just want to punch people who only look at the MB/s when the real performance improvements in everyday tastks comes from the ms.

22nd July 2009, 14:08

Interesting idea, but the review really needed to do some real world tests.

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Originally Posted by Rutar

I just want to punch people who only look at the MB/s when the real performance improvements in everyday tastks comes from the ms.

The difference amounted to 3.1ms, that's negligible. Drive throughput is just one factor in performance, just as access latency is another factor.

22nd July 2009, 10:44	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Hacking the Seagate 1.5TB Drive to turn it into a Velociraptor Killer Today our at home hardware hacker Artiom shows us how to turn the 1.5TB storage monster into a high performance drive that takes the performance crown away from the Western Digital Velociraptor. Don't think it can be done? We assure you it can, and we show you how. You too can buy a half priced drive and get top end performance. http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/ __________________

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22nd July 2009, 13:30	#2
Rutar Posts: n/a	I just want to punch people who only look at the MB/s when the real performance improvements in everyday tastks comes from the ms.