Interesting speed benchmarks

[Stefan Ehmann]

On Friday 26 January 2007 13:35, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On 1/26/07, Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft at gmx.net> wrote:
> > On Friday 26 January 2007 11:00, Alexey Karagodov wrote:
> > > what manufacturer says about usb speeds?
> > > that is the question
> >
> > Well, "up to 56MB/s" which is pretty much full USB2 speed.
> >
> > But writing it on the box doesn't mean the speed can actually be reached.
> >
> > Benchmarking on windows might be interesting, but I don't know how to
> > measure raw disk io on windows.
>
> Format the disk, copy a large file to/from it, divide
> its size by time spent, add the word "approximately" :-)

I'd rather not format a drive with my backups and other stuff on it :-)