CougTek
Hairy Aussie
The article in question.
Unlike Eugene's latest benchmarks, enabling NCQ on TR's testbed leaded to noticeable performance gains. TR's didn't use light office applications though, but tasks that put a significant workload on the storage system.
And according to their test, Maxtor's DiamondMax 10 seriously kicks the ass of Seagate's 7200.8, which let me believe that they have something deeply flawed in their methodology. Not that I believe that the Seagate should be faster, but the discrepancy between the two drives shouldn't be that huge.
Unlike Eugene's latest benchmarks, enabling NCQ on TR's testbed leaded to noticeable performance gains. TR's didn't use light office applications though, but tasks that put a significant workload on the storage system.
And according to their test, Maxtor's DiamondMax 10 seriously kicks the ass of Seagate's 7200.8, which let me believe that they have something deeply flawed in their methodology. Not that I believe that the Seagate should be faster, but the discrepancy between the two drives shouldn't be that huge.
