Test Setup

01:41 - Monday 2 October 2006 by Don Woligroski
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: thecus, yes, nano, n1050, otg, uk

Test Setup

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System Hardware
Processor(s) 2x Intel Xeon Processor (Nocona core)
3.6 GHz, FSB800, 1 MB L2 Cache
Platform Asus NCL-DS (Socket 604)
Intel E7520 Chipset, BIOS 1005
RAM Corsair CM72DD512AR-400 (DDR2-400 ECC, reg.)
2x 512 MB, CL3-3-3-10 Timings
System Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar WD1200JB
120 GB, 7,200 rpm, 8 MB Cache, UltraATA/100
Test Hard Drive I Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3500641
500 GB, 7,200 rpm, 16 MB Cache, SATA/300
Mass Storage Controller(s) Intel 82801EB UltraATA/100 Controller (ICH5)
Silicon Image SATALink SiL3512
Driver 1.2.0.57
Promise FastTrak TX4310
Driver 2.06.1.310
Promise SATA 300TX4
Driver 1.0.0.33
Networking Broadcom BCM5721 On-Board Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Graphics Card On-Board Graphics
ATI RageXL, 8 MB
System Hardware
Performance c't h2benchw 3.6
PCMark05 V1.01
I/O Performance IOMeter 2003.05.10
Fileserver-Benchmark
Webserver-Benchmark
Database-Benchmark
Workstation-Benchmark
System Software & Drivers
OS Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition,
Service Pack 1
Platform Driver Intel Chipset Installation Utility 7.0.0.1025
Graphics Driver Default Windows Graphics Driver

Performance When Backing Up USB Devices

We used photos from our robocopy benchmark as the standard backup for digital still cameras. The test setup consists of 395 files with 1 GB in total size.

The Memina Rocket 4 GB and Crucial Gizmo! 2 GB USB drives were compared with a Casio EX-750 camera to see if the data transfer rate would vary from device to device:

Indeed, it looks like the Thecus N1050 will work only as fast as the USB devices you use along with it. The USB flash drives worked quickly, but the Casio EX-750 digital camera was markedly slower, with almost half the transfer speed of the Memina Rocket drive. The camera took six minutes and 50 seconds to transfer 1 GB of data, while the Memina Rocket drive did the same job in four minutes and 20 seconds.


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