WD800JB not so fast?

[Bluga]

I bought one yesterday but when i ran Sissoft benchmark it appears that it's Slower than my 80GB Maxtor!

Is there something wrong here? Obviously i can't not feel its performance.

 

[Kingofcomputer]

sandra's hd benchmark is a joke, not accurate.

use your sense to feel it, you can feel it.
try copy a lot files from cd-rom to hd, you can count how fast it writes.
try copy a lot files from hd to hd, you can count how fast it reads and writes.

use above methods to compare to the Maxtor.

 

[Bluga]

hmm...i still can't "feel" the difference, could it be defective?

 

[pm]

I'd suggest posting the numbers here and then other owners of 800JB's can compare/contrast (I have one too). Alternatively, you can download some of the benchmarks that they use at other review sites (like storagereview.com - if they've reviewed the 800JB) and then compare your numbers with those.

 

[dexvx]

If your 80GB maxtor is 7200 rpm with 2MB cache, I doubt anyone would notice a difference. Its one of those things that you need to benchmark [properly, see storagereview.com's benchmark suites] to see a tangible difference.

Can you really tell the difference between 200 fps at 1024x768 and 250fps?

 

[Bluga]

Originally posted by: pm
I'd suggest posting the numbers here and then other owners of 800JB's can compare/contrast (I have one too). Alternatively, you can download some of the benchmarks that they use at other review sites (like storagereview.com - if they've reviewed the 800JB) and then compare your numbers with those.

Thanks, where can i find those software? Are they available for free?

 

[Bluga]

Ok on Sisoft Sandra my WB 80GB (8MB)'s drive index is around 28634 kB/s

Also my computer seems to hang a lot more when i added this drive :Q

 

[zzzz]

Is the DMA enabled for the ide channel?

 

[MIGhunter]

Did you replace your HDD or add another.

The system hang could be from the 2 HDDs competing for bandwidth.

 

[Bluga]

Originally posted by: MIGhunter
Did you replace your HDD or add another.

The system hang could be from the 2 HDDs competing for bandwidth.

I added another, could that cause crash?

 

[Bluga]

Originally posted by: zzzz
Is the DMA enabled for the ide channel?

yup.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

I have both the maxtor and the wd drive. I think it's a little faster if anything as far as me noticing, but it isn't a big difference. i haven't done any real hdd benchmarks, but nero says me drivespeed is about 10mbps faster in it's little drive speed test for the wd. maybe i'll run sissoft to see what i get...

but i'm sooo lazy....