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- Tests of the drives on the author's system:
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- Floppy drives:
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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 │ 7.679979200│ 0.449998796│ 27.428571000│ 1.607142925
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────┬───────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ 17.05.2000, 15:30 │ FAS is 5.333 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 │ 6.007892500│ 0.352024972│ 17.882352000│ 1.047794104
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 5.333 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Harddisk drives:
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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 │ 378.278533936│ 22.164758682│ 466.408599854│ 27.328628540
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────┬───────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ 15.05.2000, 22:34 │ FAS is 292.800 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 │ 286.113433838│ 16.764459610│ 393.392211914│ 23.050325394
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────┬───────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ 15.05.2000, 22:42 │ FAS is 145.600 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
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- E│ 0.30│ 35 │ 229.738342285│ 13.461230278│ 348.766540527│ 20.435539246
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────┬───────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ 16.05.2000, 00:35 │ FAS is 239.733 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
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- E│ 0.30│ 35 │ 125.707336426│ 7.365664005│ 310.645019531│ 18.201856613
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────┬───────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ 15.05.2000, 22:56 │ FAS is 114.933 operations per second │
- └───────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Conner (see above), tested using Stacker volume file. With SMARTDRV.
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- E│ 257.28│ 1 │ 0.000000000│ 0.000000000│ 427.007751465│ 25.019985199
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────┬───────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ 16.05.2000, 10:23 │ Read-only mode - FAS test was not performed │
- └───────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Conner (see above), tested using Stacker volume file. No SMARTDRV.
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- E│ 257.28│ 1 │ 0.000000000│ 0.000000000│ 370.561767578│ 21.712602615
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────┬───────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ 17.05.2000, 13:54 │ Read-only mode - FAS test was not performed │
- └───────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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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│ 2.50│ 5 │ 74.644279480│ 4.373688221│ 164.018447876│ 9.610456467
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────┬───────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ 16.05.2000, 00:45 │ FAS is 235.733 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
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- D│ 2.50│ 5 │ 48.610054016│ 2.848245382│ 259.529602051│ 15.206811905
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────┬───────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ 15.05.2000, 22:50 │ FAS is 115.200 operations per second │
- └───────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- RAM drive:
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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│ 15.98│ 5 │ 12746.882812500│ 746.887695312│ 11911.936523438│ 697.965026855
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────┬───────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ 15.05.2000, 23:52 │ FAS is 5265.867 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
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- E│ 15.00│ 5 │ 393.080139160│ 23.032039642│ 4821.092285156│ 282.485870361
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────┬───────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ 16.05.2000, 00:04 │ FAS is 2922.400 operations per second │
- └───────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- ZIP drives:
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- Comments: Iomega ZIP-drive. Slow mode. PP. (Olivetti 486 DX2 66MHZ)
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- H│ 2.50│ 3 │ 72,59001161436│ 4.4599303136│ 102,7397260273│ 6.312328767
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed test was not performed. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Iomega ZIP-drive. Medium-speed mode. PP. (Olivetti 486 DX2 66MHZ)
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- H│ 2.50│ 3 │ 73,22788517871│ 4.4991212654│ 130,3259887402│ 8.007228748
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 50.933 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Iomega ZIP-drive. Fast mode. EPP 1.9. (Celebris 590)
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- I│ 1.50│ 3 │ 109,678062439│ 6.426449299│ 354,461517334│ 20.769229889
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 52.000 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Iomega IDE internal ZIP (ATAPI), no QEMM.
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- H│ 2.50│ 3 │ 247.342987061│ 14.492753029│ 530.020629883│ 31.055898666
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────┬───────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ 17.05.2000, 13:59 │ FAS is 103.467 operations per second │
- └───────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Network drives:
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- Comments: Network drive of a UNIX network at University of Oslo (Win95 machine)
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- M│ 3.00│ 3 │ 836,6889038086│ 49.024738312│ 576.0000000│ 33.750000000
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 207.467 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Novell NetWare 4.5 (from Win95 machine)
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- N│ 3.00│ 4 │ 944,1525878906│ 55.321437836│ 1024.0000000│ 60.000000000
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 1018.133 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Linux:
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- Comments: Linux virtual DOS machine (under DOSEMU 0.6.7.10)
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- C│ 0.81│ 6 │ 2462,718994141│ 144.299942017│ 2481.0000000│ 145.371093750
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 673.333 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Linux root filesystem (under DOSEMU 0.6.7.10)
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- D│ 4.89│ 4 │ 2857,368652344│ 167.423934937│ 2863,428466797│ 167.779022217
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ File Access Speed is 265.600 operations per second. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- CD-ROM drive:
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- Comments: Hitachi 16X, multi-pass mode.
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- J│ 15.05│ 5 │ 0.000000000│ 0.000000000│ 1519.621215820│ 89.040306091
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────┬───────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ 17.05.2000, 15:10 │ Read-only mode - FAS test was not performed │
- └───────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Comments: Hitachi 16X, single-pass mode (more accurate).
- #│Test MB│Turns│ Write KB/Sec │ Write MB/Min │ Read KB/Sec │ Read MB/Min
- ─┼───────┼─────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────
- J│ 99.97│ 1 │ 0.000000000│ 0.000000000│ 1154.625122070│ 67.653816223
- ┌┴───────┴─────┴────┬───────────┴──────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┐
- │ 17.05.2000, 15:13 │ Read-only mode - FAS test was not performed │
- └───────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- End of tests of the drives on the author's system.
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