Hard drive, USB, and Firewire
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 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 | ||||
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Asus |
Asus |
Asus |
Dell | |
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Burst Speed |
115.9 |
118.4 |
65.4 |
114.4 |
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Average Read Speed |
32.6 |
33.3 |
31.6 |
44.0 |
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Random Access Speed |
17.9 |
17.9 |
18.3 |
15.4 |
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HDTach | ||||
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Asus |
Asus |
Asus |
Dell | |
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Burst Speed |
31.9 |
32.9 |
35.2 |
33.3 |
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Average Read Speed |
29.8 |
31.2 |
31.9 |
30.4 |
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Random Access Speed |
14.3 |
14.3 |
14.2 |
14.5 |
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HDTach | ||||
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Asus |
Asus |
Asus |
Dell | |
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Burst Speed |
41.3 |
41.5 |
41.9 |
40.7 |
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Average Read Speed |
34.3 |
34.4 |
34.9 |
33.6 |
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Random Access Speed |
14.0 |
14.0 |
14.0 |
14.1 |
The Asus W2J performs as we expect with respect to the other laptops here. The W2J and the W7J show nearly identical scores, whereas the A7J falls back in HDD performance because of its old hard drive. The Dell XPS M1710 has the upper hand in HDD performance thanks to the 7200 RPM hard drive.
