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#1
October 2nd, 2003, 06:05 PM
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 Has anyone tried the SmartDisk Firewire drives on .mac? Does anyone have any experience with these? Any opinion on whether they're worth the $$? I'm talking about the SmartDisk Firewire drives that .mac members can get a $30 rebate on...
__________________ OS X 10.4 G5 Dual 2GHZ / 160GB / 1GB RAM / Superdrive Apple 20" Cinema Display SmartDrive 120GB Firewire HD Maxtor 250GB SATA Visit my wife's eBay store !! http://stores.ebay.com/Catchy-Creations-by-brendaonline Now pining for a MacBook Pro...  |
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#3
October 6th, 2003, 09:44 AM
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| Was asking myself the same thing. Very tempting, huh? Btw, they just work with the firewire-plug or any other electricity plug needed as well if not even battery!?
__________________ iBook 600; 12''; 640mb; 8mb Rage; DVD-CDRW-Combo, 20GB P4 1.6; 2x80GB Raid1 (file-server) tiBook 1Ghz, Superdrive, 768MB, 64mb 9000, 60GB |
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#4
October 6th, 2003, 09:47 AM
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| Well I caved and ordered the 120gb drive last week. When I get it later this week, I'll post my review. 
__________________ OS X 10.4 G5 Dual 2GHZ / 160GB / 1GB RAM / Superdrive Apple 20" Cinema Display SmartDrive 120GB Firewire HD Maxtor 250GB SATA Visit my wife's eBay store !! http://stores.ebay.com/Catchy-Creations-by-brendaonline Now pining for a MacBook Pro... |
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#5
October 6th, 2003, 12:13 PM
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| It's good there are always other ppl who get week and give up before I do! 
__________________ iBook 600; 12''; 640mb; 8mb Rage; DVD-CDRW-Combo, 20GB P4 1.6; 2x80GB Raid1 (file-server) tiBook 1Ghz, Superdrive, 768MB, 64mb 9000, 60GB |
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#6
October 8th, 2003, 06:25 PM
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| Here's my review My Smartdisk 120GB firewire drive came today. Setup could hardly be easier (though it does have it's own power supply. I wonder why there are so few bus-powered firewire peripherals...) Connect the power pack & firewire cable and you're off and running. It's VERY quiet and fairly stylish. Xbench returned these stats for the drive: Disk Test 60.17 Sequential 48.57 Uncached Write 59.91 26.14 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 62.25 25.33 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 41.11 6.47 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 39.57 17.07 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 79.04 Uncached Write 73.56 1.11 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 99.57 22.84 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 90.65 0.59 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 62.73 12.30 MB/sec [256K blocks] Quite respectable. In fact, it writes faster than my internal 60GB drive, though it reads more slowly. Here are the stats for my (apple-original) internal 60gb drive: Disk Test 67.56 Sequential 64.22 Uncached Write 55.85 24.37 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 57.34 23.33 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 128.29 20.21 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 52.22 22.53 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 71.27 Uncached Write 56.54 0.85 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 66.90 15.35 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 95.45 0.62 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 76.86 15.06 MB/sec [256K blocks] Two thumbs up! 
__________________ OS X 10.4 G5 Dual 2GHZ / 160GB / 1GB RAM / Superdrive Apple 20" Cinema Display SmartDrive 120GB Firewire HD Maxtor 250GB SATA Visit my wife's eBay store !! http://stores.ebay.com/Catchy-Creations-by-brendaonline Now pining for a MacBook Pro... |
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#7
October 9th, 2003, 03:58 AM
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| Wow! You should consider to run your macosx on the new drive! How fast is the average access time?
__________________ iBook 600; 12''; 640mb; 8mb Rage; DVD-CDRW-Combo, 20GB P4 1.6; 2x80GB Raid1 (file-server) tiBook 1Ghz, Superdrive, 768MB, 64mb 9000, 60GB |
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#8
October 9th, 2003, 06:25 AM
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| At the moment, I don't have a good utility that can calculate the average access time. Can anyone recommend one?
__________________ OS X 10.4 G5 Dual 2GHZ / 160GB / 1GB RAM / Superdrive Apple 20" Cinema Display SmartDrive 120GB Firewire HD Maxtor 250GB SATA Visit my wife's eBay store !! http://stores.ebay.com/Catchy-Creations-by-brendaonline Now pining for a MacBook Pro... |
