External USB HDD speed

[xeonzx86]

can anyone suggest me some utility to benchmark my external USB hdd (using a seagate 120gb/7200 with a USB2.0 case) .
wat is the speed diff between usb2.0 and usb 1.0.........my transcend flash never gives me speeds above 8 mb/s...

 

[LTC8K6]

HDtach will do a good job.

usb1.0 1.5 megabits/sec (187.5Kbytes)
usb1.1 12 megabits/sec (1.5Mbytes)
usb2.0 480 megabits/sec (60Mbytes)

Those are maximums of course, which you never actually get.

 

[ZYFER]

you are highly unlikely to encounter USB 1.0 unless you used really, really old systems, talking about Socket 7 class, or AT systems. Remember this, when you use USB it is going to hit your CPU, and this can directly affect the transfer rate if it is having trouble handling it

 

[xeonzx86]

that is why when i was using USB HDD on a celeron 1.2ghz system speeds as well as transfer speeds are very low......

 

[xeonzx86]

i used hdtach...........it shows my external hdd(seagate 120gb baracuda) speeds as 1.0mb/sec. this system which i am using is
celeron 1.2ghz
128MB ram
810e mbd

is it because of such low config speeds are so low??

 

[LTC8K6]

Sounds like your HD is on a USB 1.1 port then. Look in device manager at your USB ports. You should see the word enhanced for a high speed port, or it will actually say USB 2.0.

You can always add a USB 2.0 card to get your HD going a lot faster. My WD 40Gb external HD averages about 17Mbytes/sec on a USB 2.0 port. That's with a P3 1.2Ghz Tualatin.

 

[JackMDS]

On one of my systems.

External USB2 Hard Drive to ATA 133 HD that sits in 2.6GHz CPU with 1GB memory.

5 sec. to transfer a 100MB file using WinXP with regular software.

That means 20MB/sec. x 8 = 160Mb/sec. (B=Byte b=bit).

:sun:

 

[xeonzx86]

i checked that mbd didn't have usb2.0 support................so i checked on a thinkpad....there my drive gave avg 19mb/s
burst 24mb/s

while with usb1.0 it was not givin any speed morethan 1mb/s

thanks

 

[ZYFER]

Originally posted by: xeonzx86
i checked that mbd didn't have usb2.0 support................so i checked on a thinkpad....there my drive gave avg 19mb/s
burst 24mb/s

while with usb1.0 it was not givin any speed morethan 1mb/s

thanks

well its actually usb 1.1 🙂 are you rating those speeds in megabytes or megabits? there is a big difference in that case, you can always upgrade the Celeron with a usb 2.0 card if you think it is really worth it