More Western Digital 800JB Goodness

[lhgpoobaa]

Just ran some "quickie" benchmarks on my two 80Gb drives.

both are twin platter 40gb/platter drives,
the Maxtor D740X and the Western Digital 800JB with 8Mb cache.

HDTACH 2.61 results. (read speeds only)

800JB
max - 49546 kb/sec
min - 26331 kb/sec
average - 40503 kb/sec
cpu usage - 14%
seek time - 13.1ms
burst - 80+Mb/sec <font color=red>OFFSCALE</font color=red>

D740X
max - 44228 kb/sec
min - 20998 kb/sec
average - 35107 kb/sec
cpu usage - 19.1%
seek time - 11.9ms
burst 74.2 Mb/sec

CONCLUSION:

the 800JB really rocks... beats the maxtor by over 5mb/sec accross the entire media with sustained reads. (cant do writes cauz that will nuke my data)
lower cpu usage, a burst transfer rate thats offscale. only thing not as good is the longer seek time. but thats easily covered by the 8mb cache. yum yum yum


<font color=blue>All religions are true, for a given value of 'true' - Terry Pratchett.</font color=blue>

 

[OldBear]

That is almost identical to my 1200JB. The Special Editions are nice.


<b><font color=blue>The shortest distance between two points is under construction. :lol:

 

[lhgpoobaa]

hiya oldiebear!

u should see the results for my 60GXP
woefull burst rate, and only a max transfer rate of around 40mb/sec

course with all the bad sectors the program crashes half way though lol


<font color=blue>All religions are true, for a given value of 'true' - Terry Pratchett.</font color=blue>

 

[OldBear]

They were great while they worked.


<b><font color=blue>The shortest distance between two points is under construction. :lol:

 

[lhgpoobaa]

indeed. the first drive i got when i really thought "wow this is fast"



<font color=blue>All religions are true, for a given value of 'true' - Terry Pratchett.</font color=blue>

 

[Slasher]

*sigh* bought 60GXP two weeks before finding this forum,
oh well just for my own info how long did yours last before it suicided
Thanx

Money talks, so they say, but mine only says
"Goodbye"

 

[camieabz]

Here are two sets of results for my 2 x 40GB 60GXPs in RAID 0.

max - 62443 kb/sec
min - 17817 kb/sec
average - 43186 kb/sec
cpu usage - 12%
seek time - 8.3ms
burst - 80+Mb/sec OFFSCALE

max - 64670 kb/sec
min - 22131 kb/sec
average - 40306 kb/sec
cpu usage - 10.3%
seek time - 8.2ms
burst - 80+Mb/sec OFFSCALE


Explain that!

<b><font color=blue>~ What do you mean "It isn't working!"...Now where's my sonic screwdriver? ~ </font color=blue></b>

 

[lhgpoobaa]

well mine actually runs quite well for MOST of the time. its just every couple of months it suddenly goes spazz and throws up a collection of bad sectors.

ive had it for around 14 months now, First time it died i was having overclocking issues, but even so i had to do a low level DFT format to revoe the bad sectors.

second time it took out my OS... yet another format.

an a week or so ago boom. more bad sectors. this time they missed anything critical, so i can still boot from that drive, but for me, 3 strikes and its out. i have no confidence in data integrity on that drive.
when i find time i gotta go thru the RMA process.

<font color=blue>All religions are true, for a given value of 'true' - Terry Pratchett.</font color=blue>