Hard drives tests
Amiga 1200 with Blizzard IV 1230/50

with FastATA 1200 controller


Blizzard IV 1230/50 speed test result
Blizzard IV 1230/50 speed screen (SysInfo 3.24)

ATA3.driver screen
ATA3.driver launched

ATA3Prefs screen
ATA3Prefs screen
PRIMARY MASTER:
Samsung Spin Point V 80GB UATA/100 (SV8004H)
• Formatted Capacity: 80.0GB
• Interface: 40-pin EIDE
• Rotational Speed: 5400rpm,
• Average Seek Times: 8.9ms,
• Buffer Size: 2MB
SECONDARY MASTER:
Samsung Spin Point V 6.4GB UATA/66 (SV0643D)
• Formatted Capacity: 6.4GB
• Interface: 40-pin EIDE
• Rotational Speed: 5400rpm,
• Average Seek Times: 9.5ms,
• Buffer Size: 512kB

SysInfo Drives Information screen
The speed of SDH1: partition (Samsung SV8004H) as measured by SysInfo 3.24: 8,192,000 bytes/s

SysInfo Drives Information screen
The speed of DH1: partition (Samsung SV0643D) as measured by SysInfo 3.24: 7,786,455 bytes/s

The practical test: of copying 141,592,580 bytes between two hard drives
The speed of SDH1: partition (Samsung SV8004H) as measured by DriveSpeed: 8,160,000 bytes/s
The speed of DH1: partition (Samsung SV0643D) as measured by DriveSpeed: 8,034,461bytes/s
Copying (reading & writting) 141,592,580 bytes from SDH1: to DH1: 47 seconds
Copying (reading & writting) 141,592,580 bytes from DH1: to SDH1: 49 seconds

 

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CPU: 68040 AmigaOS Version: 40.68 Normal Video DMA
Device: SDH1: Buffers: 200
Comments: The speed of SDH1: partition (Blizzard IV 1230/50 with FastATA 1200)

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 4941790 bytes/sec
Write to file: 6455296 bytes/sec
Read from file: 7798784 bytes/sec


Check the results of the same tests when these hard drives are connected to Amiga 1200 IDE port.

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