Hard drives tests
Amiga 1200 with BlizzardPPC 603e/240 & 060/50
(drives connected to Amiga 1200 motherboard IDE port)

BlizzardPPC 603e/240 & 060/50 speed test result
BlizzardPPC 603e/240 & 060/50 speed screen (SysInfo 3.24)

Two hard drives connected to A1200 IDE port:
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
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: 1,698,557 bytes/s

SysInfo Drives Information screen
The speed of DH1: partition (Samsung SV0643D) as measured by SysInfo 3.24: 1,673,259 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: 1,723,564 bytes/s
The speed of DH1: partition (Samsung SV0643D) as measured by DriveSpeed: 1,668,498 bytes/s
Copying (reading & writting) 141,592,580 bytes from SDH1: to DH1: 153 seconds
Copying (reading & writting) 141,592,580 bytes from DH1: to SDH1: 153 seconds

 

MKSoft DiskSpeed 4.2 Copyright © 1989-92 MKSoft Development
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CPU: 68040 AmigaOS Version: 40.68 Normal Video DMA
Device: SDH1: Buffers: 200
Comments: The speed of SDH1: partition (BlizzardPPC without FastATA 1200)

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 2086718 bytes/sec
Write to file: 2168351 bytes/sec
Read from file: 1682899 bytes/sec


Check the results of the same tests when these hard drives are connected to the FastATA 1200 ports.

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