Laptop drives: 7200rpm vs. 4200rpm

Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited January 2004 in Hardware
Having finally gotten totally sick of my laptop's 40GB, 4200RPM/2MB hard drive, I ordered a 50GB 7200RPM/16MB drive from ATACOM today, and I picked it up this afternoon.

Anyhow, I figured I'd run ATTO on both and see how they did. I put them in my print server, so the test system is as follows:

1.3GHz Celeron-Tualatin @ 1.5GHz
MSI Pro266TD-LR Dual S370 motherboard
512MB PC2100 DDR
Via Apollo Pro 266 chipset
ATi Radeon 9000
Hercules GTXP
Generic 3-port via-based PCI Firewire card
Maxtor OEM Promise 133TX2 2-channel ATA-133 PCI controller
LiteOn 52/32/52 CD-RW
Floppy drive (woohoo!)
Maxtor DiamondMax 9 80gb/7200rpm/8mb 3.5" half-height system drive
Toshiba MK4018GAP 40GB/4200RPM/2MB 2.5"/9.5mm drive, quick formatted
Toshiba MK5024GAY 50GB/7200RPM/16MB 2.5"/9.5mm drive, quick formatted

Both laptop drives were set as the master drives on the second channel on the Promise ATA-133 controller; no other devices were on that channel.
Also, I added the score for my WD800JB test from my WDJB vs. DMax9 thread, which was also quick formatted and set as the master device on the second channel of the Promise card, with nothing else on that channel for it's test.

Here are the results:

Comments

  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Brb, going to get an ATTO of my laptops 5400 for comparison (shouldn't be far off as its virtually the same laptop).
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Er...... The drive isn't fragmented..... WTF is going on (no other applications opened)...
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Right, I defragged, restarted, deleted 15GB of stuff, defragged again, restarted, closed EVERYTHING and I am still only getting 17/18k. I'll go bench in Linux to see if it's a Windows issue.
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