Flexible All-Rounder: External Drives from Western Digital with 200 and 250 GB

Test Setup

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Test System
Processor Intel Pentium 2.4 GHz, 256 kB L2 Cache (Willamette)
Motherboard Intel 845EBT, 845E Chipset
Memory 256 MB DDR/PC2100, CL2Micron/Crucial
Controller i845E UltraDMA/100-Controller (ICH4)On-Board USB 2.0On-Board FireWire
Graphics Card ATI Radeon SDRAM, 32 MB
Network 3COM 905TX PCI 100 MBit
OS Windows XP Pro 5.10.2600
Benchmarks and Measurements
Office Applications ZD WinBench 99 - Business Disk Winmark 1.2
High-end Applications ZD WinBench 99 - Highend Disk Winmark 1.2
Performance Measurements ZD WinBench 99 - Disc Inspection TestHD Tach 2.61
Drivers and Settings
Graphics Driver 5.1.2001.0 (Windows XP Standard)
IDE Driver Intel Application Accelerator 2.3
DirectX Version 9
Resolution 1024x768, 16 Bit, 85 Hz Refresh

Benchmark Results

Data Transfer Chart With IEEE1394/ FireWire

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Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.