ATTO Benchmark
The 1MB transfer test first, read performance then write.
Moving swiftly on, the 1MB test tells us very little about overall read performance due to the transfer size. The Freecom ending up fastest is living proof. Small transfers over FireWire are suboptimal it seems. Here's the write speed graph for completeness.
That's more like it, but still not completely accurate. The 32MB version of the test for a better picture. Reads first again.
The Freecom lags with the Maxtor disks fighting it out for the top spot. The fastest drive on paper, the 5000DV, has a bizarre, reproducible dip at the 16KB mark. And remember our ~35MB/sec limit?
The 80GB 3000DV, the cheapest of all three Maxtor disks on test, ends up the victor yet again, sticking two fingers up to its on-paper disadvantage in the cache stakes. The 160GB 5000DV feels pretty crippled from the performance the drive inside can show on a native SATA interface.
