Vostro Hard Drive Transfer Rates

Hi there - if you own a dell vostro, with the standard 5400rpm hard drive, could you post the transfer rate & times when copying a 700mb file between two partitions & copying from one partition to an external USB drive.

Just so I can see if mine matches the standard as I think mine may be far too slow.

Thanks!

 

Well it depends on a lot of factors, such as HD brand, size and brand/size/speed of the external drive as well. The type and amount of files being transferred also makes a difference, what speeds are you getting?

 

Transferring a 700mb (SIngle AVI File) folder between two partitions, takes around 28/29 mbps? is that pretty normal?

Transferring from a USB 2.0 external hard drive (which i know will be slower) is about 20mbps.

In general my laptop seems lighting fast, but the read/write rates appears to be below the norm for a 5400rpm, or am I just being paranoid?

What rates do you get?

 

run HDPARM

 

Are you running Windows XP or Vista? Vista also has a bug in the early versions that has a bug regarding file copy and transfer being slow. There is a patch or you can install SP1 to fix it.

 

My Vostro 1700. The Hitachi is my system drive on HDD1 and the Samsung is my data drive on HDD2.

HD Tune: Hitachi HTS541616J9S Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 22.7 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 45.8 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 35.8 MB/sec
Access Time : 16.8 ms
Burst Rate : 78.6 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 4.9%

HD Tune: SAMSUNG HM160JI Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 22.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 43.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 35.2 MB/sec
Access Time : 18.4 ms
Burst Rate : 56.6 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 3.9%

 

Steve - thank you for posting your results, as I just done a similar test and my results are virtually the same.

When I run HDBenchmark programs, the results are pretty standard for my drive, yet real file transfers do seem slower, which I guess points to the HD is working fine, but other factors could be making the file transfer slow?

Anyhow, not too important, was just curious to see what other results people are getting.

And to the other question, I am running Windows XP Pro SP3 (and latest updates).

 

No probs.

Glad you are getting similar results in XP to my Vista