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Ikstej24

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Dec 11, 2004
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ATLANTA, GA
What type of performance should I be expecting out of my Sonnet Tempo ATA133 card? The main reason for getting this card in my digital audio G4 was for big drive support but I was also looking for a pretty good performance increase. Here are my xBench scores.

Disk Test 115.82
Sequential 108.41
Uncached Write 84.58 35.26 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 85.50 35.01 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 160.03 25.33 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 140.28 56.68 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 124.32
Uncached Write 141.95 2.13 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 144.13 32.51 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 101.50 0.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 119.90 24.68 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Are these normal or is there something else i should be doing? The drives also do not show up in Apple System Profile and I am not sure if this affects anything.
 

Ikstej24

macrumors regular
Original poster
Dec 11, 2004
164
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ATLANTA, GA
Both of the Western Digital and Maxtor drives produce the same results...they are both 7200 rpm 4 mb cache drives...the Maxtor is on bus 3 and the WD is on bus 4
 
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