• System used for testing:
  HP ML350 G5 quad CPU with 4GB RAM

• For benchmarking we used CrystalDisk and HDTune

• Please see CrystalDisk results below

Seagate 15K.7	Seagate 15K.6

• The newer disk performed significantly better and stayed cooler during testing

• As the size of the file was reduced to 4K performance on the older disk was slightly better





• Now lets take a look at the results of HDTune

Seagate 15K.7	Seagate 15K.6

• Conclusion

• The newer disk performed significantly better and stayed cooler during testing. Once the file size was reduced, the older disk performed slightly better at writing.