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Toshiba MK8025GAL

The Toshiba MK8025GAL is an 80 GB and 4200 RPM hard drive disk. It's a very lightweight HDD; as such, the Toshiba was used in various portable devices including netbooks, media players, MacBooks, iPods. We first tested the 1.8" drive in 2009.

Performance

At around 30 MB/s (HD Tune 2.54), the drive's real-world data transfer rate is mediocre at best.

Power consumption

The HDD's peak power consumption is supposed to be under 1.65 W. This makes MK8025GAL a relatively power-efficient data storage device.

TypeHDD
Size1.8
Capacity80 GB
RPM4200 rpm

Benchmarks

HD Tune Transfer Rate Minimum - HD Tune Transfer Rate Minimum
16.5 MB/s (1%)
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WDC PC SN520 SDAPNUW-512G
0.3 -98%
...
40 GB - 4200 rpm
14.5 -12%
Toshiba MQ01ABD075H
15.3 -7%
200 GB - 5400 rpm
15.33 -7%
160 GB - 4200 rpm
15.4 -7%
80 GB - 7200 rpm
15.43 -6%
Hitachi Travelstar 5K320 HTS543225L9A3
15.75 -5%
120 GB - 5400 rpm
15.95 -3%
300 GB - 4200 rpm
16.4 -1%
Toshiba MK5076GSX
16.45 0%
Toshiba MK8025GAL
16.5
Hitachi Travelstar 5K320 HTS543216L9A300
16.6 1%
Toshiba MK4055GSX
16.7 1%
WDC Scorpio Blue WD3200BEVT-80A0R
16.7 1%
Toshiba MK2565GSX
16.75 2%
60 GB - 0 rpm
16.8 2%
WDC Scorpio Blue WD2500BPVT-80ZEST0
16.9 2%
WDC Scorpio WD1200BEVS-22UST0
17.1 4%
WDC WD10SPCX-75KHST0 + LiteON CS1-SP32-11 M.2 2242 32GB
17.7 7%
Seagate Momentus Thin ST500LT012-9WS142 + 24 GB SanDisk U100 SSD Cache
17.93 9%
...
2x Toshiba HG6 THNSNJ128G8NU (RAID 0)
1999 12015%
0%
100%
HD Tune Transfer Rate Average - HD Tune Transfer Rate Average
29.4 MB/s (1%)
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Fujitsu MHW2060AT
20.4 -31%
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100 GB - 4200 rpm
22.55 -23%
40 GB - 4200 rpm
22.8 -22%
120 GB - 4200 rpm
24.4 -17%
160 GB - 4200 rpm
24.95 -15%
60 GB - 5400 rpm
27.59 -6%
60 GB - 0 rpm
27.9 -5%
Toshiba MK1216GSG
28.4 -3%
200 GB - 4200 rpm
28.45 -3%
Silicon Motion SM223A
28.7 -2%
Toshiba MK8025GAL
29.4
Samsung SpinPoint N2 HS082HB
29.5 0%
Toshiba MK1235GSL
30.1 2%
100 GB - 5400 rpm
30.16 3%
80 GB - 5400 rpm
30.92 5%
300 GB - 4200 rpm
31.25 6%
4 GB + 8 GB SSD
32 9%
Fujitsu MHW2120BH
32.1 9%
200 GB - 5400 rpm
32.51 11%
120 GB - 5400 rpm
33.21 13%
...
2x Toshiba HG6 THNSNJ128G8NU (RAID 0)
2395 8046%
0%
100%
HD Tune Transfer Rate Maximum - HD Tune Transfer Rate Maximum
36.4 MB/s (1%)
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Fujitsu MHW2060AT
24.8 -32%
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80 GB - 4200 rpm
26.89 -26%
40 GB - 4200 rpm
27.5 -24%
100 GB - 4200 rpm
28.6 -21%
Silicon Motion SM223A
30.6 -16%
160 GB - 4200 rpm
31.8 -13%
120 GB - 4200 rpm
32 -12%
60 GB - 0 rpm
34.2 -6%
60 GB - 5400 rpm
34.59 -5%
4 GB + 8 GB SSD
35.05 -4%
Toshiba MK8025GAL
36.4
Samsung SpinPoint N2 HS082HB
36.5 0%
200 GB - 4200 rpm
36.53 0%
Toshiba MK1216GSG
37.1 2%
100 GB - 5400 rpm
38.62 6%
300 GB - 4200 rpm
39.6 9%
80 GB - 5400 rpm
39.71 9%
Toshiba MK1235GSL
39.9 10%
Fujitsu MHW2120BH
40.4 11%
Toshiba MK1237GSX
40.85 12%
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2x Toshiba HG6 THNSNJ128G8NU (RAID 0)
2513 6804%
0%
100%
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Sergey Tarasov (Update: 2022-07-27)