Making Gigabytes mobile: Firewire Harddrive from Western Digital

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Test Configuration

Again I made use of our standard setup for storage tests. Plus the WD PCI adapter, of course.

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Test system
ProcessorIntel Celeron, 500 MHz
MotherboardIWill W100, I810 Chipsatz
RAM128 MB SDRAM, 7ns (Crucial/Micron or Wichmann Workx ) CL2
IDE Controlleri810 UltraDMA/66-Controller (ICH)
Graphics cardi810 On-Board
Network3COM 905TX PCI 100 MBit
OSWindows 98 SE 4.10.2222 A
Benchmarks and Measurements
Content Creation BenchmarkZD Content Creation Winstone 2000
PerformanceZD WinBench 99 - Disc Inspection Test
TemperatureUsing the motherboard's monitoring port and a thermistor, we give you the highest temperature value measured on the drive's surface. All drives ran two hours to ensure they were at working temperature.
Drivers and Settings
Graphics driversIntel I810 Reference drivers 4.11.01.2555 for Windows 98
IDE driversIntel Busmaster DMA drivers 6.0
DirectX Version7.0a
Screen resolution1024x768, 16 Bit, 85 Hz Refresh
Patrick Schmid
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.