Originally posted by: jcolby
Has anyone run benchmarks on the M6805 4200 rpm hard disk?
I was running benchmarks on my desktop machines hard disks and decided to run it on my M6805. I understand that I have the lowly 4200 RPM hard disk but it seems that the results are still extremely low. I'm wondering if its something on my machine or if this is just life in the M6805 4200 rpm world.
I am running XP Professional, 512mb ram, HD Tune 2.1 from
http://www.hdtune.com/
My results are:
HD Tune: HITACHI_DK23FA-60 Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 1.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 3.8 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 3.6 MB/sec
Access Time : 19.8 ms
Burst Rate : 3.7 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 93.6%
The machine feels like molasses. I plugged in a CompUSA generic external hard disk container using USB 2.0 containing a 250g 7200 rpm hard disk and the bench numbers come out virtually identical to (in fact as little higher than) my MSI K8N Neo running an Athlon64 3.0ghz benchmarking this same drive.
HD Tune: Maxtor 6Y250P0 Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 21.8 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 24.6 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 23.5 MB/sec
Access Time : 14.7 ms
Burst Rate : 24.4 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 12.4%