View The Benchmark Scores of the Quantum Atlas 10k II 1st Sample

View The Benchmark Scores of the Quantum Atlas 10k II 1st Sample

Hard Drive Physicals

Device Name & Review Link	Quantum Atlas 10k II (36.7 GB Ultra160/m SCSI)
Model Designation	QM336400TY-LW

Rotations Per Minute	10000 RPM
Gigabytes Per Platter	7.3 GB
Seek Time	4.7 ms
Buffer Size	8192 KB
Warranty	5 years

Rated Idle Noise	38 dB
Power Consumption	10 watts

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Testbed II	Ziff Davis WinBench 99 under Windows 2000 Professional using NTFS *	Testbed II

Benchmark	Quantum Atlas 10k II (36.7 GB Ultra160/m SCSI)
Business Disk WinMark 99 (KB/sec)	8247
High-End Disk WinMark 99 (KB/sec)	24633
AVS/Express 3.4 (KB/sec)	29567
FrontPage 98 (KB/sec)	99767
MicroStation SE (KB/sec)	27867
Photoshop 4.0 (KB/sec)	13667
Premiere 4.2 (KB/sec)	19600
Sound Forge 4.0 (KB/sec)	27133
Visual C++ (KB/sec)	22933

Disk/Read Transfer Rate	StorageReview.com
Beginning (KB/sec)	40167
End (KB/sec)	25000

Disk Access Time (ms)	7.8

Disk CPU Utilization (%)	0.34

Legacy WinBench Benchmarks

Testbed I	Ziff Davis WinBench 99 under Windows 95 OSR 2.1 using FAT 32 *	Testbed I

Benchmark	Quantum Atlas 10k II (36.7 GB Ultra160/m SCSI)
Business Disk WinMark 99 (KB/sec)	5153
High-End Disk WinMark 99 (KB/sec)	18600
AVS/Express 3.4 (KB/sec)	17100
FrontPage 98 (KB/sec)	40033
MicroStation SE (KB/sec)	18133
Photoshop 4.0 (KB/sec)	14967
Premiere 4.2 (KB/sec)	11933
Sound Forge 4.0 (KB/sec)	28800
Visual C++ (KB/sec)	19400

Disk/Read Transfer Rate	StorageReview.com
Beginning (KB/sec)	41133
End (KB/sec)	24900

Disk Access Time (ms)	8.0

Disk CPU Utilization (%)	5.64

Testbed I	Ziff Davis WinBench 99 under Windows NT 4.0 using NTFS *	Testbed I

Benchmark	Quantum Atlas 10k II (36.7 GB Ultra160/m SCSI)
Business Disk WinMark 99 (KB/sec)	5423
High-End Disk WinMark 99 (KB/sec)	20000
AVS/Express 3.4 (KB/sec)	32233
FrontPage 98 (KB/sec)	38133
MicroStation SE (KB/sec)	21500
Photoshop 4.0 (KB/sec)	11267
Premiere 4.2 (KB/sec)	17100
Sound Forge 4.0 (KB/sec)	24833
Visual C++ (KB/sec)	16733

Disk/Read Transfer Rate	StorageReview.com
Beginning (KB/sec)	41367
End (KB/sec)	24967

Disk Access Time (ms)	7.8

Disk CPU Utilization (%)	2.73

Testbed I	ThreadMark 2.0 under Windows 95 OSR 2.1 using FAT 32 *	Testbed I

Benchmark	Quantum Atlas 10k II (36.7 GB Ultra160/m SCSI)
Data Transfer Rate (MB/sec)	24.40
Average CPU Utilization (%)	63.91
KB/sec per 1% CPU Utilization (KB/sec)	382

Testbed I	ThreadMark 2.0 under Windows NT 4.0 using NTFS *	Testbed I

Benchmark	Quantum Atlas 10k II (36.7 GB Ultra160/m SCSI)
Data Transfer Rate (MB/sec)	30.52
Average CPU Utilization (%)	49.68
KB/sec per 1% CPU Utilization (KB/sec)	614

IOMeter Benchmarks

Testbed II	Intel IOMeter	Testbed II

All Loads	Linear	Very Light	Light	Moderate	Heavy
1 worker, 10 minutes, 30 second rampup


File Server Access Pattern	StorageReview.com
Total I/Os per second	119.99	144.95	144.37	219.44	267.90
Total MBs per second	1.31	1.58	1.58	2.39	2.92
Average I/O Response Time (ms)	8.33	27.59	110.82	291.60	955.07
CPU Utilization (%)	0.46	0.49	0.53	0.82	1.07
I/Os per % CPU Utilization	260.85	295.82	272.40	267.61	250.37

Workstation Access Pattern	StorageReview.com
Total I/Os per second	129.39	145.06	145.16	211.60	252.59
Total MBs per second	1.01	1.13	1.13	1.65	1.97
Average I/O Response Time (ms)	7.73	27.57	110.22	302.41	1012.76
CPU Utilization (%)	0.43	0.52	0.53	0.82	1.02
I/Os per % CPU Utilization	300.91	278.96	273.89	258.05	247.64

Database Access Pattern	StorageReview.com
Total I/Os per second	120.87	146.96	146.89	222.30	273.85
Total MBs per second	0.94	1.15	1.15	1.74	2.14
Average I/O Response Time (ms)	8.27	27.22	108.91	287.85	934.21
CPU Utilization (%)	0.42	0.55	0.61	0.86	1.30
I/Os per % CPU Utilization	287.79	267.20	240.80	258.49	210.65

* Testing Parameters At A Glance

1 worker, 10 minutes, 30 second rampup.

File Server Access Pattern	File Server Access Pattern
Workstation Access Pattern	8k blocks, 80% Random, 80% Read
Database Access Pattern	8k blocks, 100% Random, 67% Read
Linear	1 I/O
Very Light	4 I/Os
Light	16 I/Os
Moderate	64 I/Os
Heavy	256 I/Os

*Note: Threadmark 2.0 and WinBench98 test results are the average of five trials.
WinBench99 test results are the average of three trials.