OK...
I DL'd and installed WinBench '99 V2 from
here (the stripped down 9.5 MB ver)
After installing WB....
1) To select drive go to WinBench>Edit>Test Settings
2) To perform selected test, in the main Functions function select Run and pick Selected from the combo box...from there pick the following: Disk Transfer Rate (DTR), Disk Access Time (DAT), and Disk CPU Utilization (DCU) and eliminate the other tests if present.
DTR & DCU are kind of time consuming (I cut DTR off after it hit the 10 GB mark and estimated the average)
System: 700 MHz PIII sys w/ 386MB RAM & W2k SP3
Conditions: Everything was closed except for WB and a few system tray items (virus soft disabled)
Drive D: => DTR = 25 MB/s; DAT = 6.34 ms; DCU = 1.96 %
D: is a 20 GB 10000 rpm wide SCSI-160 drive
Drive S: => DTR = 25 MB/s; DAT = 13.5 ms; DCU = 1.91 %
S: is a 60 GB 7200 rpm ATA-100 EIDE drive
Doing these tests may help see if there's some major difference between the FireWire & IDE drives on your system.
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