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Articles: Storage

Western Digital Passport Mobile Hard Disk Drive with 250GB Storage Capacity (page 9)


Category: Storage

by Aleksey Meyev

[ 09/05/2007 | 02:31 PM ]


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Performance in FC-Test

The last test today will be FileCopy Test. Two 32GB partitions are created on the drives and formatted in FAT32 and then in NTFS. After that a file-set is created of the hard disk. It is then read from the disk, copied within the same partition and then copied into another partition. The time taken to perform these operations is measured and the speed of the drive is calculated.

To remind you, the Windows and Programs file-sets consist of a large number of small files whereas the other three patterns (ISO, MP3, and Install) include a few large files each.

We’ll discuss the FAT32 results first.

The new hard drive outperforms the youngest model during files creation in all patterns, although the overall performance difference is not dramatic.

During file reading, Passport 250GB is again an indisputable leader. Moreover, the difference from the opponent is pretty significant.

File copying within the same partition is no problem for our newcomer at all. Passport 250GB runs 3MB/s+ faster in MP3, ISO and Install patterns (note that they consist of few larger files).

However, the most impressive victory is won during file copying from one partition to another. While Passport 120GB slows down a little bit, the 250GB model speeds up and the gap between the rivals in MP3, ISO and Install patterns increases even more.

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