The authoritative hardware website Tom's Hardware compiled historical data and announced the 2023 mechanical hard drive rankings, including 20 products tested in recent years and currently on sale, including price, performance, power consumption, core specifications, etc. Generally speaking, the larger the capacity of the mechanical hard drive, the better the performance, but it is not absolute. For example, in the Toshiba X300Pro series, the 12TB one is slightly faster than the 20TB one.
The one with the best performance is Seagate Galaxy X2020TB. As an enterprise product, it leads the way in terms of random performance, exceeding 1,000 IOPS, which is about three times that of ordinary hard drives, and its power consumption is also controlled to less than 8W.
The key is that the price is also very impressive, $289 in North America.Domestically priced at around 2,949 yuan, the price/performance ratio ranks second on the entire list.
The most cost-effective one is also from Seagate, Barracuda 8TB, which only costs about 1,250 yuan in China, and has ultra-low power consumption of only 5W, but the price is the worst performance. After all, it is an SMR tiled disk, and it only has a rotation speed of 5400RPM.
Same Seagate, same 8TB, the Coldplay version has the lowest cost performance, but fortunately the performance is also good, especially the random performance reaches 909IOPS, second only to the enterprise-level Galaxy X20, and it has CMR traditional magnetic recording, 7200RPM speed, and 256MB cache.