Hard Drive Physicals
Device Name & Review Link Seagate Cheetah 36LP (36.7 GB Ultra160/m SCSI)
Model Designation ST336704LW
Rotations Per Minute 10000 RPM
Gigabytes Per Platter 6.1 GB
Seek Time 5.2 ms
Buffer Size 4096 KB
Warranty 5 years
Rated Idle Noise 39 dB
Power Consumption 11 watts

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 Testbed II  Ziff Davis WinBench 99 under Windows 2000 Professional using NTFS *  Testbed II 
Benchmark Seagate Cheetah 36LP (36.7 GB Ultra160/m SCSI)
Business Disk WinMark 99 (KB/sec) 6170
High-End Disk WinMark 99 (KB/sec) 17167
AVS/Express 3.4 (KB/sec) 19733
FrontPage 98 (KB/sec) 80900
MicroStation SE (KB/sec) 28367
Photoshop 4.0 (KB/sec) 11567
Premiere 4.2 (KB/sec) 10867
Sound Forge 4.0 (KB/sec) 14633
Visual C++ (KB/sec) 15933
Disk/Read Transfer Rate StorageReview.com
Beginning (KB/sec) 36133
End (KB/sec) 24100
Disk Access Time (ms) 9.0
Disk CPU Utilization (%) 0.19

Legacy WinBench Benchmarks

 Testbed I  Ziff Davis WinBench 99 under Windows 95 OSR 2.1 using FAT 32 *  Testbed I 
Benchmark Seagate Cheetah 36LP (36.7 GB Ultra160/m SCSI)
Business Disk WinMark 99 (KB/sec) 4120
High-End Disk WinMark 99 (KB/sec) 15533
AVS/Express 3.4 (KB/sec) 11400
FrontPage 98 (KB/sec) 38367
MicroStation SE (KB/sec) 15333
Photoshop 4.0 (KB/sec) 12867
Premiere 4.2 (KB/sec) 11933
Sound Forge 4.0 (KB/sec) 20933
Visual C++ (KB/sec) 16033
Disk/Read Transfer Rate StorageReview.com
Beginning (KB/sec) 36000
End (KB/sec) 24100
Disk Access Time (ms) 9.4
Disk CPU Utilization (%) 5.63

 Testbed I  Ziff Davis WinBench 99 under Windows NT 4.0 using NTFS *  Testbed I 
Benchmark Seagate Cheetah 36LP (36.7 GB Ultra160/m SCSI)
Business Disk WinMark 99 (KB/sec) 4570
High-End Disk WinMark 99 (KB/sec) 15700
AVS/Express 3.4 (KB/sec) 20800
FrontPage 98 (KB/sec) 36267
MicroStation SE (KB/sec) 21167
Photoshop 4.0 (KB/sec) 9067
Premiere 4.2 (KB/sec) 12800
Sound Forge 4.0 (KB/sec) 15367
Visual C++ (KB/sec) 14433
Disk/Read Transfer Rate StorageReview.com
Beginning (KB/sec) 36100
End (KB/sec) 24100
Disk Access Time (ms) 9.1
Disk CPU Utilization (%) 2.57

 Testbed I  ThreadMark 2.0 under Windows 95 OSR 2.1 using FAT 32 *  Testbed I 
Benchmark Seagate Cheetah 36LP (36.7 GB Ultra160/m SCSI)
Data Transfer Rate (MB/sec) 15.04
Average CPU Utilization (%) 43.36
KB/sec per 1% CPU Utilization (KB/sec) 347

 Testbed I  ThreadMark 2.0 under Windows NT 4.0 using NTFS *  Testbed I 
Benchmark Seagate Cheetah 36LP (36.7 GB Ultra160/m SCSI)
Data Transfer Rate (MB/sec) 20.20
Average CPU Utilization (%) 33.00
KB/sec per 1% CPU Utilization (KB/sec) 612

IOMeter Benchmarks

 Testbed II  Intel IOMeter  Testbed II 
1 worker, 10 minutes, 30 second rampup
All Loads Linear Very Light Light Moderate Heavy
File Server Access Pattern StorageReview.com
Total I/Os per second 100.59 141.41 141.19 199.45 247.44
Total MBs per second 1.09 1.53 1.54 2.15 2.69
Average I/O Response Time (ms) 9.94 28.28 113.31 320.81 1033.89
CPU Utilization (%) 0.34 0.56 0.54 0.76 1.03
I/Os per % CPU Utilization 295.85 252.52 261.46 262.43 240.23
Workstation Access Pattern StorageReview.com
Total I/Os per second 120.98 152.57 152.26 204.66 245.35
Total MBs per second 0.95 1.19 1.19 1.60 1.92
Average I/O Response Time (ms) 8.26 26.21 105.08 312.62 1042.73
CPU Utilization (%) 0.43 0.57 0.52 0.79 1.08
I/Os per % CPU Utilization 281.35 267.67 292.81 259.06 227.18
Database Access Pattern StorageReview.com
Total I/Os per second 101.75 148.33 148.33 205.75 257.14
Total MBs per second 0.79 1.16 1.16 1.61 2.01
Average I/O Response Time (ms) 9.83 26.96 107.86 311.03 995.04
CPU Utilization (%) 0.34 0.59 0.62 0.73 1.05
I/Os per % CPU Utilization 299.26 251.41 239.24 281.85 244.90

* 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.
Windows 2000 Professional Test Bed Disclosure
Windows 95 Test Bed Disclosure
Windows NT 4.0 Test Bed Disclosure
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