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Ken Gypen wrote: |
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>> I would assume that the two benchmark programs I am using to measure the |
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>> drive performance under windows go through windows, and thus the NTFS |
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>> interface. They are Dr. Hardware and FreshDiagnose. The second one |
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>> showed a write speed as quoted above, and a read speed of about 280 MB |
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>> per second... Though the same one reported a read speed of about 900+ |
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>> MB per second for my USB drive (not really possible, since the maximum |
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>> speed for USB 2.0 is about 480 MB / second). |
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> Hi Chris, |
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> A more realistic speed for a HD is about 60-90MB/second... It's hardware |
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> limited. So your values are quite off, regardless of the OS and the |
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> filesystem. |
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Yeah - when doing this sort of thing ensure you are using files at least |
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2x(size of RAM) - otherwise you can end up just measuring memory access |
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speed. |
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Cheers |
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Mark |
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