Real World Tests – File System Performance
For our Real World File System Performance tests, we have taken the original tests and tailored them for external drives. More specifically, instead of just measuring the time that it takes to copy, zip, and unzip within the same drive, we measure the time that it takes to perform these tasks from a SATA drive to the external device.
| File Copy – One 300MB File, seconds, lower is better |
|
Within Drive |
To Drive (From SATA) |
| AcomData E5 320GB (USB) |
32.072 |
11.191 |
| AcomData E5 320GB (FireWire 400) |
20.573 |
11.334 |
| File Copy – Three Hundred 1MB Files, seconds, lower is better |
|
Within Drive |
To Drive (From SATA) |
| AcomData E5 320GB (USB) |
13.298 |
13.219 |
| AcomData E5 320GB (FireWire 400) |
12.962 |
12.813 |
| File Zip – One 300MB File, seconds, lower is better |
| |
Within Drive |
To Drive (From SATA) |
| AcomData E5 320GB (USB) |
69.195 |
70.734 |
| AcomData E5 320GB (FireWire 400) |
67.219 |
67.586 |
| File Zip – Three Hundred 1MB Files, seconds, lower is better |
|
Within Drive |
To Drive (From SATA) |
| AcomData E5 320GB (USB) |
71.775 |
71.621 |
| AcomData E5 320GB (FireWire 400) |
70.583 |
70.620 |
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Andyvan - Saturday, August 27, 2005 - link
That is exactly what I've been envisioning for several years.-- Andyvan
Ecmaster76 - Saturday, August 27, 2005 - link
With standardized external SATA devices on the horizon, I would advise wiating to buy unless you really need external storage right now.Any of you cool dudes at Anandtech know how soon we can expect a wide selection of external SATA?
psychobriggsy - Saturday, August 27, 2005 - link
You can already buy external SATA enclosures. When I was looking for mine, I saw SATA versions of the IcyBox for example, and the price was pretty much the same in fact.UltraWide - Saturday, August 27, 2005 - link
I got a 320GB version on firewire through my audigy2 and it's excellent. it's fast, quiet and runs very cool.psychobriggsy - Saturday, August 27, 2005 - link
Earlier this month I bought a 200GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (the silent IDE version) and an IcyBox external Firewire/USB2 enclosure (the one with the blue lighting). That worked out a lot cheaper than buying something pre-made like this. It too has a Firewire passthrough.The price? £80 in total. Which is around $125 after you take tax off the UK price.
It's been coupled with my iBook, which only has a 40GB 4200 RPM hard drive. It's a handy backup solution, and I store all my media file on it as well. I plan to get a Mac Mini at some point in the future to which it will be permanently attached. The combination can then serve music to a SqueezeBox2 or similar, once I get one of those.
ElFenix - Monday, August 29, 2005 - link
i've had hit or miss experiences using do it yourself external drive kits. i *think* that the premade ones tend to have better chipsets inside. and the diy stuff doesn't come with the software. and sometimes the premade stuff is about the same cost (after rebates and sales) as diy.formulav8 - Saturday, August 27, 2005 - link
I wish I could talk my wife into letting me get that for her laptop. Her slow 60gb 4200 rpm drive is almost full. Oh well, she won't let that happen with that much money.Jason
Olaf van der Spek - Saturday, August 27, 2005 - link
> and the results of CPU load for the FireWire 400 interface surprised us even more, since it is pier-to-pier.What's a pier?
TheInvincibleMustard - Saturday, August 27, 2005 - link
Arr, matey ... that be when ye be shipping pirated medias between your two drives ... yar-har-harrrrrr.:-D