View The Benchmark Scores of the Seagate Cheetah 36LP 1st Sample

View The Benchmark Scores of the Seagate Cheetah 36LP 1st Sample

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

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	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.