Which one is faster?

[Over]

Which one is faster and would you use to install games?

 

 

- Seagate 500GB 16Mb SP 7200rpm

- Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200rpm 64Mb Cache Sata 3

(Note: "SP" in the first HDD means "Single Plate")

[Godlygamer23]

Most likely the 2TB drive.

[Hazy125]

They both have the same speed... 7200rpm. I would go the two terabyte option as I have used nearly one full terabyte just on game installs on my computer

[Over]

My doubt here is that it is said that a single plate drive is faster because it doesn't need to switch plates. All information is on a single plate. On the other hand, it has less cache than the barracuda one. I don't know very well what that means in terms of performance.

[Godlygamer23]

From what I'm seeing in the different reviews, the Barracuda is faster.

[Over]

That's good to know. I'll explain why I've asked.

My current system is 4 years old and I'm about to get a new system. For budget reasons, I've decided to invest more in the SSD, so I'm ending up with the Seagate Barracuda instead of a WD Black. My current system has two single plate hard drives and a WD green. The person to whom I'll gift this PC won't need much space, so I'm thinking about keeping one of those single plate HDD, if faster than the barracuda.

I've just benchmarked one of those single plate hard drives and I'm posting here the results:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/-----------------------------------------------------------------------* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]           Sequential Read :   108.324 MB/s          Sequential Write :   109.878 MB/s         Random Read 512KB :    41.555 MB/s        Random Write 512KB :    56.806 MB/s    Random Read 4KB (QD=1) :     0.542 MB/s [   132.4 IOPS]   Random Write 4KB (QD=1) :     1.149 MB/s [   280.6 IOPS]   Random Read 4KB (QD=32) :     0.814 MB/s [   198.7 IOPS]  Random Write 4KB (QD=32) :     1.273 MB/s [   310.8 IOPS]  Test : 50 MB [E: 58.2% (271.2/465.8 GB)] (x1)  Date : 2013/07/20 10:06:51    OS : Windows Vista Home Premium Edition SP2 [6.0 Build 6002] (x64)

How does this compare to the barracuda? I've tried a 500MB test as well:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/-----------------------------------------------------------------------* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]           Sequential Read :   112.884 MB/s          Sequential Write :   106.099 MB/s         Random Read 512KB :    36.892 MB/s        Random Write 512KB :    41.559 MB/s    Random Read 4KB (QD=1) :     0.441 MB/s [   107.7 IOPS]   Random Write 4KB (QD=1) :     0.737 MB/s [   179.9 IOPS]   Random Read 4KB (QD=32) :     0.616 MB/s [   150.4 IOPS]  Random Write 4KB (QD=32) :     0.737 MB/s [   179.9 IOPS]  Test : 500 MB [E: 58.2% (271.2/465.8 GB)] (x1)  Date : 2013/07/20 10:12:45    OS : Windows Vista Home Premium Edition SP2 [6.0 Build 6002] (x64)  

What do you think?

[Guest]

What's this "Seagate 500GB 16Mb SP 7200rpm" you're talking about? Momentus? Barracuda? 

[Godlygamer23]

@Windspeed36 Seagate Barracuda ST500DM002 maybe? That's what I've found.

[Over]

I'm not sure. I think it's a Barracuda and the one mentioned in this news article:

 

http://www.zdnet.com/seagate-launch-drive-with-500gb-on-single-platter-4010011817/

 

 

Does anyone know benchmark results for the Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200rpm 64Mb Cache Sata 3?

 

Just out of curiosity, I've benchmarked the WD green and the Barracuda SP is clearly superior (except with random write/read):

 

 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/-----------------------------------------------------------------------* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]            Sequential Read :    54.330 MB/s          Sequential Write :    75.594 MB/s         Random Read 512KB :    79.569 MB/s        Random Write 512KB :   164.599 MB/s    Random Read 4KB (QD=1) :    30.086 MB/s [  7345.3 IOPS]   Random Write 4KB (QD=1) :     1.247 MB/s [   304.4 IOPS]   Random Read 4KB (QD=32) :     1.400 MB/s [   341.9 IOPS]  Random Write 4KB (QD=32) :     1.030 MB/s [   251.5 IOPS]   Test : 50 MB [G: 77.7% (723.5/931.5 GB)] (x1)  Date : 2013/07/20 10:28:09    OS : Windows Vista Home Premium Edition SP2 [6.0 Build 6002] (x64)