- Sep 21, 2001
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Just a quick comment, this little drive really shines!!
Boot time in a Presario 2100z (AXP 2000+) is a good 10 seconds faster than a desktop (both machines running windows XP) The desktop has a an AXP 1800+ and the hard drive is a WD 100 GB (7200 rpm, 2 MB cache.... the king of the hill before the 8 MB cache drives)
Not only that, application launch is is as fast as the desktop, and overall "snappiness" doesn't lack against the desktop. Sandra reports a sustained data transfer of 24 MB/sec in NTFS, 26 MB/sec in FAT32..... not bad at al.
However, what impressed me the most was the Norton Ghost image performance (using the same floppy for a desktop and this laptop, so no different switches can be blamed) It started at 380 MB/minute and the lowest it got was 330 MB/minute :Q (Ghost 2002, fast compression, writing the image spans to a FAT32 partition). The WD 1000 GB is at around 150 MB/minute the best, a Maxtor D740X is at around 130 MB/minute..... Amazing!!
If I get another one of thsese puppies, I may even use it in a desktop computer and bech it against a 7200 rpm drives.
Do you think that Ghost benefits from the 8Mb cache???
Great drive, no complaints
Alex
PS. Did I mention that the drive is almost silent.... ??? No increased noise over the 4200 part.
Boot time in a Presario 2100z (AXP 2000+) is a good 10 seconds faster than a desktop (both machines running windows XP) The desktop has a an AXP 1800+ and the hard drive is a WD 100 GB (7200 rpm, 2 MB cache.... the king of the hill before the 8 MB cache drives)
Not only that, application launch is is as fast as the desktop, and overall "snappiness" doesn't lack against the desktop. Sandra reports a sustained data transfer of 24 MB/sec in NTFS, 26 MB/sec in FAT32..... not bad at al.
However, what impressed me the most was the Norton Ghost image performance (using the same floppy for a desktop and this laptop, so no different switches can be blamed) It started at 380 MB/minute and the lowest it got was 330 MB/minute :Q (Ghost 2002, fast compression, writing the image spans to a FAT32 partition). The WD 1000 GB is at around 150 MB/minute the best, a Maxtor D740X is at around 130 MB/minute..... Amazing!!
If I get another one of thsese puppies, I may even use it in a desktop computer and bech it against a 7200 rpm drives.
Do you think that Ghost benefits from the 8Mb cache???
Great drive, no complaints
Alex
PS. Did I mention that the drive is almost silent.... ??? No increased noise over the 4200 part.
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