Thread: Samsung Spinpoint HM500JI M7 hard drive

The Samsung Spinpoint HM500JI M7 offers two magnetic disks of the current maximum capacity of 500 GB. The first 2.5-inch hard drive with more space in the fall will bring to market Samsung - 640 GB then the manufacturer is aiming its SpinPoint family with. The Samsung Spinpoint HM500JI M7 uses a SATA-300 interface. The two data disks rotate with the typical maximum speed of 5400 revolutions per minute of the four read-write heads over. The buffer memory, the usual 8 MB. The usable space after formatting NTFS is at 466 GB.



The access time of on average 9.0 and 17.9 milliseconds at full stroke access the other hand, were quite poor. With only the Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM), the mean access time increased only slightly to 9.5 milliseconds, while the noise reduction function on the devastating impact full stroke access that 20.3 millisecond shot up steeply.

The Samsung Spinpoint HM500JI M7 was averaged over all speed tests than in the past sixth-fastest 2.5-inch drive on the finish line. could mark up the hard drive, especially by high-practice writing performance. 19.1 MB / s on the inner and 32.3 MB / s achieved on the outer tracks the 500 GB drive very good values. The maximum of 24.4 MB / s when copying and 26.4 MB / s were read, however, only average. This was also true for the sequential read rate of up to 81.3, mean 61.8 and minimum 39.7 MB / s. Better the sequential write speed of up to 87.7, mean 65.3 and minimum 40.2 MB / s.