Hi Rob, Oxford IDE Device 1 58 p-LUN, 465.76 gig: 17 seconds to save, thirteen seconds to open
Maxtor OX 7100, 280 gig: 13 seconds to save, 11 seconds to open I have another of eachof the above.. They seem to perform the same way. Three are firewire. One is wired internally on a Mac G4 dual 1.25. On May 20, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote: > On 21/05/07, Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Rob - >> >> My results - >> >> 70 gig WD Raptor SATA Drive - 12 seconds to save, 15 to load. >> 250 gig WD SATA - 20 seconds to save, 20 seconds to load. >> 120 gig Maxtor EIDE drive - 2 minutes to save and 1:45 to load (!) >> 500 gig WD My Book USB 2.0 drive - 35 seconds to save, 35 seconds >> to load. >> >> The system is a Athlon 4200+ dual core, 3 gigs fairly slow ram (333) >> running Windows XP x64 edition. >> >> Not sure what's up with the Maxtor 120 gig drive... The external usb >> drive is faster than I expected. > > Hi Mark, > > Thanks for doing that, in the main your results pretty much accord > with mine, though the speed of your Maxtor is bit of a mystery. Maybe > your Secondry contoller isn't set to DMA mode? In the Device manager > under the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers tab check the Advanced Settings > for the IDE channels, set transfer mode to "DMA if available" if it's > not already set (that's for WK2, should be similar for XP) and see how > it performs. > > My motherboard is a 2002 Supermicro design which I commissioned in > early 2004 so it seems like it's still offering reasonable > performance. My local RAID 0 consists of a Pair of the original WD > Raptors on an early Promise RAID card, maybe a later card would lead > to a slight performance increase. > > I added my Maxtor external USB drive which I use for off-line back-up > to the table for comparison. > > http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/PS_data_rates.html > -- > Rob Studdert > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO > http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ > Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
