Show us your hard drive performance

[Comp Cmndo]

WD 320GB, 7200rpm notebook HDD..............WD My Passport Essential SE 1TB USB 3.0

 

[essenbe]

WD 320GB, 7200rpm notebook HDD..............WD My Passport Essential SE 1TB USB 3.0

Those are very good transfer speeds

 

[Comp Cmndo]

WD 320GB, 7200rpm notebook HDD..............WD My Passport Essential SE 1TB USB 3.0

Those are very good transfer speeds

Really?
It was a shocker to see the speeds were very nearly the same. I thought something was wrong. It's only a Corei3-2310M HP laptop. 7200rpm drive must help. It must prove that USB3.0 does make a difference.

 

[essenbe]

It does make a big difference over 2.0. I figure about 2-3 times as fast. You'll never get the 10 times they talk about, but 2.5 times faster can make a big difference.

 

[essenbe]

Somebody look at the read speeds of these 2 drives and tell me if this is possible.

 

[o770]

Western Digital Scorpio Black - not really desktop-class...
WD3200BEKT
Form Factor 2.5", Buffer 16MB, Interface SATA 3Gb/s

Western Digital Elements - external
WDBAAR1200ABK-NESN
Interface USB 2.0

Samsung S2 Ultra Portable - external
HX-MU010EA
Interface USB 2.0

 

[Comp Cmndo]

Somebody look at the read speeds of these 2 drives and tell me if this is possible.
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OCZ Vertex 2 has claimed speeds of exactly what you are showing for both read & write. I'm more impressed with the write speed than the read speed.
OCZ Vertex 2 SATA II 2.5" SSD - OCZ

 

[essenbe]

Somebody look at the read speeds of these 2 drives and tell me if this is possible.
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OCZ Vertex 2 has claimed speeds of exactly what you are showing for both read & write. I'm more impressed with the write speed than the read speed.
OCZ Vertex 2 SATA II 2.5" SSD - OCZ

What I was talking about is the read speeds of the WD green drive.

 

[Dave76]

Did you overclock that WD Green :shock:

 

[essenbe]

Did you overclock that WD Green :shock:

No. I was helping someone else in a thread. He showed me those 2 screenshots and I told him ATTO was wrong, there is no way that is possible. I'm just sort of checking on myself. If it was accurate, I'd be buying WD green drives, a bunch of them.

 

[Comp Cmndo]

What I was talking about is the read speeds of the WD green drive.

Specs say 300MB/sec transfer speed.
Western Digital's Caviar Green hard drive - The Tech Report - Page

 

[Comp Cmndo]

Patriot Supersonic Xpress 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive

I'm disappointed, only getting 40MB/s read & 9 MB/s write
Capless design is interesting, but not robust. Don't think it will last long.
Price was right, $30 after rebate.

Patriot Memory

• USB 3.0 compliant for fast read/write performance
• 32GB - Up to 60MB/s read*
• 32GB - Up to 25MB/s write*
• Backwards compatible with USB 2.0
  * based on internal testing

 

[OlegWasHere]

Harddrive Error imo

So this worries me.
I have a 3Tb GoFlex Drive and HdTune sees it as 375Gb drive.

 

[Comp Cmndo]

So this worries me.
I have a 3Tb GoFlex Drive and HdTune sees it as 375Gb drive.

The free version was released 2/12/2008. Don't expect much from it any more. Windows reports it correctly.

 

[OlegWasHere]

So this worries me.
I have a 3Tb GoFlex Drive and HdTune sees it as 375Gb drive.

The free version was released 2/12/2008. Don't expect much from it any more. Windows reports it correctly.

hdtune or the harddrive?
hdtune also gave me errors for both the external drives but not the main harddrive.

i have sandra that i can benchmark but theres no graph that comes with it.

 

[essenbe]

try crystal disk info and see if that reads it right.

 

[OlegWasHere]

yes it reads it as 3000.5 gb

but it doesn't benchmark to see my read/write does it? because i can't find it.

 

[essenbe]

No, it dosen't benchmark. It is only a disk info tool, but crystal diskmark does benchmark.

 

[dustywoodworker]

OKAY, here they are are but I don't know exactly what it tells me. Are the results good or bad and if bad - what can be done other than buy new HDs?

At least they perform similarly.

 

[essenbe]

Those are not bad scores and they have a good access time for a mechanical hard drive. Are there faster hard drives? Yes, but it is unlikely you will notice very much difference. For an OS drive, access time is more important than speed.