I have benchmarked a couple of storage solutions I had lying around, including:
Seagate Cheetah 10k RPM ST9102LW
SanDisk UltraII 4GB CompactFlash
Quantum ProDrive LPS connected externally
Kingston 8GB Standard CompactFlash (no manufacturer speed rating)
I had difficulty formatting a chart correctly in this post, so results are available at: http://synack.net/~bbraun/se30disks/
JDW indicated a preference for the Norton Utilities benchmark, so I used System Info from 4.0.3.
When interpreting the results, please read the notes I wrote at the bottom. There seemed to be pretty high variability in the results between multiple runs in the same configuration.
Sadly, I do not have any UDMA capable CF cards as that would provide an interesting comparison. As it stands, the low end CF card, which does not seem to have a speed rating from the manufacturer, performs the poorest. The UltraII card, which is pretty middle of the road, running in PIO mode, does as well as the 10k RPM Cheetah drive within the variability of the benchmark.
Seagate Cheetah 10k RPM ST9102LW
SanDisk UltraII 4GB CompactFlash
Quantum ProDrive LPS connected externally
Kingston 8GB Standard CompactFlash (no manufacturer speed rating)
I had difficulty formatting a chart correctly in this post, so results are available at: http://synack.net/~bbraun/se30disks/
JDW indicated a preference for the Norton Utilities benchmark, so I used System Info from 4.0.3.
When interpreting the results, please read the notes I wrote at the bottom. There seemed to be pretty high variability in the results between multiple runs in the same configuration.
Sadly, I do not have any UDMA capable CF cards as that would provide an interesting comparison. As it stands, the low end CF card, which does not seem to have a speed rating from the manufacturer, performs the poorest. The UltraII card, which is pretty middle of the road, running in PIO mode, does as well as the 10k RPM Cheetah drive within the variability of the benchmark.