Maxtor 5000DV Personal Storage May 15th, 2003 | by Ian Bell
Performance
Measured in kilobytes per second; longer bars indicate better performance In our eTesting Labs WinBench 99 tests using the FireWire interface, the 500DV scored in between our Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus 160 GB Serial ATA drive and our Maxtor D540X 160 GB hard drive with a beginning transfer rate of 39,900 bytes/sec and an ending transfer rate of 32,100 bytes/sec. While the 5000DV did not perform as well as we expected, it did perform above average for an external drive. Using the USB 2.0 interface should improve the transfer rate by an estimated 70 MB/sec. CPU utilization peeked 75% at times which worried us, but after comparing it to our LaCie Pocket Drive, we assumed this to be normal for a drive using the FireWire interface. System Configurations: Windows XP Pro; AMD Athlon 1700+; Abit AT7 Max 2 motherboard; 512MB DDR SDRAM 333MHz; Leadtek Geforce 4 MX video adapter.
by Kevin on November 8, 2009:
“The summary pretty much says it all. I bought five 120GB versions of these about 4 years ago. Four have been in use the whole time. Two of them being abused by my teenage son for the last 2 years or so and all are still working just fine. The fifth was in...” More...