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 comparing against:

  • 5400 RPM drive in the Asus G2
  • 7200 RPM drive in the Dell XPS M1710 and Asus Z96J

For USB and Firewire tests, we are using a ByteCC ME-740U2F enclosure with a ATA133 hard drive.

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Here’s something interesting which corroborates with the results from PCMark ’05: even though the drive in the Asus G2 has a slower RPM than the 7200 RPM in the Asus Z96J, the G2’s 5400RPM actually performs faster in 2 of 3 tests.

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USB and Firewire performance is right on par with what we’d expect. Nothing unusual to report here.

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