With all the respect to the author, any experiment should be reproduced. More than 1 disk should be tested, the temperature should be measured, and a comparison to the externally cooled disk would be looking great here. Without that, we just have some assumptions, that are partially (or fully) correct (or incorrect).
And the test should include something more substantial than
a series of 96 files ranging in size from 2 MB to 2 GB, fixed sizes but in a randomised order. The test completed in a total write time of 24.4 seconds
2MB to 2GB was a good test somewhere in the early '00, not today, when even your average not-very-AAA game requires 50GB for the install alone.
Edit: and the first two graphs uses 10^8 as the base while the last one uses 10^10 for bytes, while the cumulative total says it was only 3 GB total data written.
This is not a test, it is just a bunch of loosely related data based on one "test".
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With all the respect to the author, any experiment should be reproduced. More than 1 disk should be tested, the temperature should be measured, and a comparison to the externally cooled disk would be looking great here. Without that, we just have some assumptions, that are partially (or fully) correct (or incorrect).
And the test should include something more substantial than
2MB to 2GB was a good test somewhere in the early '00, not today, when even your average not-very-AAA game requires 50GB for the install alone.
Edit: and the first two graphs uses 10^8 as the base while the last one uses 10^10 for bytes, while the cumulative total says it was only 3 GB total data written.
This is not a test, it is just a bunch of loosely related data based on one "test".