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- Tests of the drives on the author's system:
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- Comments: 3.5" drive with a sector slide optimization, 1.44 MB floppy disk.
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- A│ 0.50│ 3 │ 7864.2988281│ 0.449998796│ 28086.8574219│ 1.607142925
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 5.600 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: 5 1/4" drive, IBM, 360KB floppy disk.
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- B│ 0.30│ 5 │ 6152.0820312│ 0.352024972│ 18311.5292969│ 1.047794104
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 5.333 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Toshiba 540MB 2.5" (with SMARTDRIVE)
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- C│ 4.00│ 3 │ 598762.9375000│ 34.261489868│ 1258291.2500000│ 72.000000000
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 287.467 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Toshiba 540MB 2.5" (with SMARTDRIVE, after SPEEDISK)
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- C│ 4.00│ 5 │ 635214.8125000│ 36.347286224│ 1310720.0000000│ 75.000000000
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 281.600 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Toshiba 540MB 2.5" (no SMARTDRIVE)
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- C│ 4.00│ 5 │ 322565.0937500│ 18.457321167│ 1398101.3750000│ 80.000000000
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 140.267 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Stacker drive (max compression) hosted by Conner. With SMARTDRV!
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- D│ 4.00│ 3 │ 100651.3437500│ 5.759315968│ 449389.7187500│ 25.714286804
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 226.933 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Stacker drive (max compression) hosted by Conner. No SMARTDRV.
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- C│ 2.50│ 5 │ 26804.0605469│ 1.533740640│ 229950.8906250│ 13.157895088
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 115.733 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Conner 278MB, 3.5" Very little space - holds Stacker. With SMARTDRV!
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- D│ 0.20│ 30 │ 393202.5937500│ 22.499233246│ 3145724.7500000│ 179.999816895
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 237.600 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Conner 278MB, 3.5" Very little space - holds Stacker. No SMARTDRV.
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- D│ 0.20│ 30 │ 142985.7812500│ 8.181712151│ 898778.5625000│ 51.428524017
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 118.133 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: RAM-Drive, compressed with Stacker. (With SMARTDRV)
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- F│ 3.00│ 5 │ 209712.5000000│ 11.999845505│ 2246948.5000000│ 128.571426392
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 626.667 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: RAM-Drive (clean). (With SMARTDRV)
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- F│ 15.00│ 5 │ 4625810.0000000│ 264.690979004│ 6049477.0000000│ 346.153869629
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 909.600 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Iomega ZIP-drive. Slow mode. (On Olivetti 486 DX2 66MHZ)
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- H│ 2.50│ 3 │ 74332.1718931│ 4.4599303136│ 105205.479452│ 6.312328767
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed test was not performed. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Iomega ZIP-drive. Medium-speed mode. (On Olivetti 486 DX2 66MHZ)
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- H│ 2.50│ 3 │ 74985.3544230│ 4.4991212654│ 133453.812470│ 8.007228748
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 50.933 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Toshiba 528MB 2.5" (no SMARTDRIVE).
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- I│ 4.00│ 5 │ 501076.5316109│ 30.0645918967│ 1510770.138684│ 90.646208321
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed test was not performed. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Toshiba 528MB 2.5" (no SMARTDRIVE, after SPEEDISK).
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- I│ 4.00│ 5 │ 521384.9287169│ 31.2830957230│ 1967717.140661│ 118.063028440
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed test was not performed. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- End of tests of the drives on the author's system.
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