Benchmarks:
Like all good hardware tests, now is the time for Sandra to tell us the real
dirt on how speedy this little black drive is. With the EZ-Backit connected, we let loose the fury that is Sandra, and got back some
pretty low scores...
|
Hitachi 12Gb drive |
Drive Index |
1282 |
Min. Disk Cache |
2Mb |
Buffered Read |
40Mb/s |
Sequential Read |
1406kb/s |
Random Read |
1111kb/s |
Buffered Write |
45Mb/s |
Sequential Write |
911kb/s |
Random Write |
1773kb/s |
Avg. Access Time |
12ms |
While this is by no means the speediest of data transfers, when it
comes to laptops there really aren't that many options. This rate
is about the norm from what we've seen. Faced with no other alternatives then complete installation
of drivers and applications, the savings in time finally start to
materialize.