HDD AAM speed/latency benchmark

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This benchmark shows perfonmance decrease with AAM turned on. Noise reduction is significant (not measured).

Disk used: Western Digital Caviar 250GB.

OS: Windows Vista SP1 x64.

Software: HD Tune

AAM configuration tool: HDDScan

AAM disabled

With AAM


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