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Originally Posted by Bifta
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Well he clearly didnt have a very good USB2.0 device as even mine is running at 20MB/s, the fastest that one ran was 15MB/s.
Even still though, I dont see how my drive can be doing only 20MB/s while my others do 60+ yet this transfers between the drive that does 105MB/s faster than any of the drives that do 60MB/s do
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Originally Posted by SOSAGES
imagien sata is the way to go i have 3 scsi drives and 1 sata drive and im hard pushed to tell teh difference (except the scsi has a 5 year warrenty and sata 3)
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You cant get external SATA devices though can you? Even if I replace this disk im gonna want it to be external again, and I know you can get external SCSI devices.
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Originally Posted by SOSAGES
and neither usb or firewire will help he benchmark his drive to see if its running full whack
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Yup, thanks everybody for the great advice above but I think you lost track of what I was actually Testing for
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Originally Posted by Stuartbe
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...
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Im not too bothered about actual transfer speeds as I dont really need it to be fast. The Main reason I am after this utility is to check to see if the drive is transferring stabily and not flaking out like it was doing less than 4 days ago.
Im a bit sceptical wether the drive is working or not as the only thing I changed on the drive was I destroyed the partition table (Created by Partition Magic, FAT32) and created a new one with Windows Drive manager (NTFS)
Since I was certain that the drive was suffering some sort of mechanical Failure I dont see how a new Partition table could do this.
a Full description of the fault the drive had is in this thread
Here
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Originally Posted by RogerCruse
Try www.pcpitstop.com
It's free and checks a whole load of things of your pc and gives you a rating with suggestions.
You can then decide to follow up their suggestions via one of their links (that's how their get their money!) or not.
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Well this is intersting, according to that site My External drive is the second fastest in my machine, Just 5MB/s slower than the Maxtor drive and both are coming uo at over 450Mb/s
Again though sadly this isnt the type of Program im after, I need to be able to monitor the drive in real time so a benchmark is no good, still very interesting though.
It looks like Samurise might be what im after though.
Thanks for all your help so far people