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Originally Posted by ZrByte
Sorry about the consecutive post but I didnt want to double edit the above post incase anybody who may be able to help doesnt check back because they think I havent posted again.
The program is useful, while it doesnt do exactly what I wanted it to do it does allow me to see hard drive usage in a similar way to how Network, CPU & Memory usage are displayed in windows task manager.
Strangley enough I cant use it to test my own transfers as it seems to severeley slow down the very transfer it is monitoring.
However if I check the box to test the Burst rate on the drive I can get the figures I need.
I dont think it is measuring the speed of the Drive in question accuratley though, this USB2.0 (480MB/s) hard drive is showing up at mereley 20MB/s Wheras my UDMA 100 Seagate barracuda is showing at 66MB/s and My Maxtor UDMA 133 is showing up at 105MB/s and my IBM udma 100 is showing up at 80MB/s.
It is possible that this drive is Just slow and thus needs replacing but it doesnt appear to be slow when I use it, infact transfers between the USB drive and the Maxtor drive are a few seconds faster than transfers between the Seagate drive and the maxtor drive so this leads me to think that this program doesnt measure USB speeds accuratley.
I must say it looks as though I should rearange my Drives slightly
Currently I boot off the Seagate (66MB/s 40GB)
Use the Maxtor as a small Data drive (105MB/s 40GB)
Looks like I should boot off the maxtor from now on wouldnt you say?
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Usb offers great burst rates but its not going to be faster than the onboard hdd's. If you are going to be moving very large files around you would be far better of with SCSI based hardware IMO...