Thread: Samsung Spinpoint M6 HM320JI Hard Disk

The Samsung Spinpoint M6 HM320JI has still a SATA/150-interface, this prevents the 2.5-inch hard drive but not out, line second highest transfer rates of all previously tested 2.5-inch hard drives to reach the bottom. It probably also helps the technology Native Command Queuing (NCQ), the 2.5-inch drive supports. NCQ allows the hard disk that required access to independently manage the system. You can thus determine the optimal sequence of accesses, saving you extra turns and shortens the distances that have to save the read / write.



The two data disks of the Samsung Spinpoint M6 HM320JI rotate with the typical maximum speed of 5400 revolutions per minute of the four read-write heads over. The buffer memory of the 320-GB drive is a contemporary 8 MB. The usable space after formatting NTFS is at 298 GB.

The Samsung Spinpoint M6 HM320JI was averaged over all transfer rate measurements, the previously second-fastest model in the 2.5-inch class and only had the house are competitive defeat: our pace recommendation Samsung Spinpoint M6 HM500LI with 500 GB of raw capacity. The maximum data rate of HM320JI was reading very good 71.4 MB / s sagged, but the writing 69.0 MB / s from something.

Compared to the more expensive Samsung model with 500 GB was the M6 HM320JI to read only about 2 MB / s slower, however, lagged in writing, they have just over 7 MB / s behind. The maximum data rates were not enough quite to point to the 500 GB Hitachi Travelstar 5K500 Monster HTS545050KTA300 on position 3, which was a shade faster on the road (read: 72.1 MB / s, write: 71.2).