[G4] HD size vs. performance

Philip J Robar philip.robar at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 15:42:34 PDT 2006


On Sep 13, 2006, at 5:58 AM, jim carbone wrote:

> My question is: Is this a function of the fact that it was cloned  
> to a new drive (almost like a major defrag) or is it because of the  
> massive amount of free space on the drive?

If the 160 is newer then it could be all or any of the previous  
answers plus any other advances that have been made in drive  
technology since your bought your Mac.

Get xbench from http://www.xbench.com/ it's a pretty simplistic test,  
but it makes for a good sanity check on drive performance and the  
rest of your hardware.


Phil



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