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Originally
posted 10/25/02 by rob-ART
morgan, Recently I
published results the new IBM Deskstar 180GXP 180GB
drive running in a FireWire case. But I know you
are dying to know how it performs on an ATA-133
interface. So I tested it on the Sonnet Tempo
ATA-133 card. For reference, I included the results
from the Western Digital Western Digital WD1800JB
180GB (8M buffer), WD1800BB 180GB (2M buffer), IBM
120GXP 120GB, and Maxtor D540X 160GB
(5400rpm). REAL WORLD
TESTS Duplicating the
457MB "pak0.pk3" file from Quake3 is my favorite
test since it forces the drive to read and write to
itself at the same time. It should be a good
indicator of how fast OS X reads/writes to Virtual
Memory. By setting
Photoshop's memory size to 41MB and having it
rotate a 45MB document, I force it to read from and
write to the scratch disk... which is defined as
the drive being tested. BENCHMARKS -
INTECH's QUICKBENCH X PERFORMANCE
ANALYSIS The new IBM
180GXP really rips on an ATA-133 interface. With
its 8MB buffer, it equaled or beat the WD1800JB
(also with 8MB buffer) on 5 out of 6
tests. The "old" IBM
120GXP came in second or third fastest on 4 out of
6 tests even on an ATA-66 interface. So if you
don't need more than 120GB of storage, there are
bargains to be had on these "obsolete"
drives. I chose the
Sonnet Tempo ATA-133 controller because it was
equal to or faster than the Acard HW RAID in all
but one test. The Acard HW RAID ATA-100/133
controller should have the upper hand when used in
HW RAID mode (striped pair RAID 0). LINKS OF
INTEREST StorageReview has
speed
results
and noise/temperature
results for the new Western Digital 200GB WD2000JB,
as well as the Barracuda ATA-V. Keep checking
Storage Review's main
page for
test results on the IBM 180GXP versus the WD1800JB
and WD2000JB. Read the
Bare
Feats report
on how the 180GXP did when connected to a FireWire
bridge. WHERE TO
BUY You find the
drives selling for low prices at NewEgg,
and GoogleGear.
(Go to each site and do a search on "180gxp" or
"wd1800bb" or etc.). The Tempo ATA-133
from Sonnet
Technologies
is available from Small
Dog for $99. The
Acard
ATA-133 Hardware RAID is useful for creating a RAID
0 stripe of a pair of fast drives. Other
World Computing
has the SIIG badged version for $140. TEST
NOTES The test "mule"
was an Apple G4/1000DP Power Mac running OS X
(10.2.1). Drives
tested: All but one was
tested with the Sonnet Tempo
ATA-133
PCI controller. REAL WORLD TESTS
included... 2. Duplicating
a 457MB document on the test drive, forcing it
to read and write to itself,
simultaneously. BENCHMARK
TEST... |
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