Hard Drive, USB, and Firewire Performance

We will now test the hard drive, USB, and Firewire performance using HDTach. Results from these tests are important if you do a lot of disk writing and reading like copying media files, and transferring files between external devices. To compare, we are testing the different Fujitsu hard drives that came in the other Asus laptops (all 5400 RPM) and the Dell XPS M1710 which has a 7200RPM SATA drive. For USB and Firewire tests, we are using a ByteCC ME-740U2F enclosure with a ATA133 hard drive.

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HDTach
Hard Drive Burst, Random and Average Read Performance

Asus
W7J

Asus
W5F

Asus
A7J

Dell
M1710

Burst Speed
(MB/s, Higher is better)

118.4

65.8

65.4

114.4

Average Read Speed
(MB/s, Higher is better)

33.3

32.3

31.6

44.0

Random Access Speed
(ms, Lower is better)

17.9

18.2

18.3

15.4

 

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HDTach
USB 2.0 Burst, Random and Average Read Performance

Asus
W7J

Asus
W5F

Asus
A7J

Dell
M1710

Burst Speed
(MB/s, Higher is better)

32.9

34.7

35.2

33.3

Average Read Speed
(MB/s, Higher is better)

31.2

30.6

31.9

30.4

Random Access Speed
(ms, Lower is better)

14.3

14.4

14.2

14.5

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HDTach
Firewire Burst, Random and Average Read Performance

Asus
W7J

Asus
W5F

Asus
A7J

Dell
M1710

Burst Speed
(Higher is better)

41.5

41.3

41.9

40.7

Average Read Speed
(Higher is better)

34.4

34.3

34.9

33.6

Random Access Speed
(Lower is better)

14.0

14.2

14.0

14.1

Scanning back over all the results on this page, we can see that there is nothing significantly unusual. The Asus W7J performs on par with the other Asus laptops as expected since they are using similar hard drives and motherboard chipsets.

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