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Join Date: Jun 2000
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I'll post mine if you post yours:
Lacie 60 gig FW HD - read avg. 10.5
write avg. 11.3
This is not particularly impressive, is it?
On a Pismo 500 640MB, running 9.1 with Firewire 2.7 and Lacie driver. (no silverlining)
Any reasons why so slow? It's a 7200 RPM drive.
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|Desktop:|Abit NFS7 Athlon 3200+, 1GIG RAM, DVD-R (A05) CDRW (52x), 1X200GIG, 1X160GIG, 2X120GIG, ATI Radeon 9800Pro, Samsung 172x Win XP Pro SP2
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FireWire ebing 400Mb/s means nothing. Thats limited by HD speed (in this case which is nice) and more importantly the speed of the IDE bridge - FireWire is not pure when used in drives, yet - hopefully there'll be a real FW drive soon.
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Yes, I've read that the real bottleneck is at the IDE/firewire bridge. Barefeats claims a company called Granite Digital, using an Oxford 911 chipset, gets the best throughput; check out http://www.barefeats.com/fire15.html.
Granite Digital features a "make your own drive," so I ordered a case from them and an IBM travelstar from elsewhere. When they arrive and I get 'em together next week I'll post my results...and see if it is as fast as claimed.
BTW, milhaus, what utility are you using to measure read/write averages?
[This message has been edited by Timo (edited 04-13-2001).]
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Originally posted by milhaus:
Lacie 60 gig FW HD - read avg. 10.5
write avg. 11.3
This is not particularly impressive, is it?
On a Pismo 500 640MB, running 9.1 with Firewire 2.7 and Lacie driver.
So, I got the Granite Digital enclosure (with this voodoo Oxford 911 chipset in the IDE/firewire bridge) and I put an IBM Deskstar (60 GB) into it today. Using Express-Pro Tools for benchmarking I got a sustained read of 24MB/s, and sustained write of 15MB/s, on a Pimso 500/384MB, running 9.1 and firewire 2.7.
The Granite Digital box cost me $171, and the IBM Deskstar 75GXP 60GB UATA/100 7200RPM cost $244, for a total of $415. Not bad.
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