[EugeneOZ]

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).

[justsomehnguy]

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".