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Is 60 MB/sec a good speed for HITACHI HD32000 2TB drive?
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I just bought a HITACHI HD32000 2TB 3.5" drive (32 MB cache) along with a Rosewill Drive enclosure (Oxford 934DSB chipset) from newegg.com. I used Drive Genius 3's benchmark test to determine the speed of the drive, which is on the order of 60 MB/second over FireWire 800.
Is that to be expected? 60 MB/sec seems a bit slow to me...
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Yours is write speed or read speed?. Read speed is usually higher, about 10 MB/sec.
In practice, the best speeds with FireWire 800 are in the 70MB/sec range. So, yours seems what one would expect from FW 800.
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That sounds pretty good: it's close to the practical limit of what you can expect of an external hd connected via FireWire 800.
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My 2TB Hitachis on eSATA do about 100MBps for sequential reads; a bit higher when they were empty and slowing down a bit as they fill up. FW800 in beta mode can do almost 80MBps in theory, and closer to 70 at best in reality.
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I think that's pretty good. I get about 65-70MBps using FW800 and nearly 100MBps via eSATA.
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For random writes, that ain't bad.
For sequential reads, that's still not terrible.
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