FEATURES
Drive Family :-Deskstar EK500
Capacity :-500 GB
Spindle speed :-7200
Buffer size :- 16MB
Average latency :- 4.17 ms
Average seek time (Read) :-8.5 ms
Number of platters / heads :- 5/ 10
Shock resistance
Operating Shock (Read). 2 ms (G):-55
Non-operating Shock, 2 ms (G) :-225
Noise emission
Idle Mode (bels) :- 3.1
Seek Mode (bels) :-3.6
Native Command Queuing (NCQ) :- yes
Perpendicular recording :-No
I4-pin Molex connector :- yes

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PERFORMANCE
Synthetic tests
SiSoft Sandra XII
Drive index (MB/s) :-51
Sequential: Read / Write (MB/s) :- 58/58
Random: Read / Write (MB/s):-38/44
Bufferead / Write (MB/s):-121/101
Random access time (ms):-9
Everest Ultimate 2007
Linear: Read / Write (MB/s) :-61.5 /61.3
Random: Read / Write (MB/s) :- 46.5/49.9
Buffered: Read / Write (MB/s) :- 121.2 /100.9
Average access time: Read / Write (ms) :- 12.94 / 6.15
PC Mark 05
XP Start up (MB/s) :- 10.83
Application loading (MB/s) :- 8.39
General usage (MB/s) :- 7.24
Virus scan (MB/s) :- 87.72
File write (MB/s) :- 62.72