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Hitachi Ultrastar A7K2000 2TB HDD

The two-terabyte hard drive to have?

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Test Results

On-Disk File Duplication Test
2GB of Music Files

Hitachi Ultrastar A7K2000

File-transfer in Seconds (s)
Shorter bars are better

HDTach Test

Hitachi Ultrastar A7K2000

Throughput in Megabytes per Second (MB/s)
Longer bars are better

CrystalDiskMark Test

Hitachi Ultrastar A7K2000

Throughput in Megabytes per Second (MB/s)
Higher points are better

IOMeter Test
4KB

Hitachi Ultrastar A7K2000

Numer of I/O Operations per Second (IOPS)
Longer bars are better

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