WD160G portable hard drive evaluation-4

Evaluation platform, we use a more mainstream Intel E2140 processor, with an excellent stability of the Biostar TP35D2-A7 motherboard for the ICH9 Southbridge to provide up to 12 USB2.0 interface. 512M DDR2 667 memory composed of two dual-channel 1GB capacity. Test items of software, primarily using the PCMark05 hard drive built-in HDD tests, SiSoftsandra 2005 file system tests, and well-known disk-testing two versions of the software HD Tach tests. Here we look at the The WD Passport 160G portable hard drive test scores.

Futuremark PCMark 05 HDD test scores

Futuremark PCMark 05 HDD score details

XP Startup - Start Windows XP system, the whole process including the 90% reading and 10% write operations.

Application Loading - This action, including the opening and closing are many programs: Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat Reader 5, Windows Media Player, 3DMark2001SE, Leadtek Winfast DVD, Mozilla Internet Browser, the whole process including the 83% reading and 17% write operations.

General Hard Disk Driver Usage - includes a series of daily operations (60% reading and 40% write):
* Open the Word document checking syntax errors, and then save close
* Compress and decompress the file using Winzip
* Encrypt and decrypt files using PowerCrypt
Using F-Secure Antivirus * Anti-drug
* Winamp player with MP3 and WMV files
* To use Windows Media Player Play DivX, and WMV video files
* With the Windows plug-in to browse pictures
* To use IE to browse the Internet
* Load, run and then quit the game

Virus Scan - a total capacity of 600MB on the pile of documents check narcotics, check narcotics test 99.5% for the read operation.

File Write - writes a hard disk size of 680MB files, just write and does not contain any read operation.

Futuremark PCMark 05 tests in the next, WD Passport portable hard drive 160G compare the performance unsatisfactory. The results for the 5400RPM mobile hard drives is very good. All the details of the performance is very prominent. See WD Passport portable hard drive 160G hard enough to meet people in their lives in the schedule storage and moving needs.


HD Tach 2.51 test scores

In HD Tach 2.51 of the evaluation project, WD Passport portable hard drive 160G of the seek time of 17.7ms, average read speed of 26.7MB / s, CPU occupancy rate was only 11.0%.


HD Tach 3.0.1.0 Test Results

In HD Tach 3.0.1.0 of the evaluation project, WD Passport portable hard drive 160G of the seek time of 17.8ms, average read speed of 32.8MB / s. Although the results can not and IDE hard drives, SATA hard drive with a USB2.0 interface, but for mobile hard disk to be selected is already very good.


SISoftware Sandra 2005 test scores

Although in comparison with the SATA interface, 3.5 hard drive is obviously the next in the wind, but the WD Passport portable hard drive 160G achievement is still impressive, reaching 29 MB / S transfer rate. This achievement, compared with the previous tests are basically the same, showing that this WD portable hard drive performance still remain relatively stable.