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I'm sure someone will post a score.

FYI...I used to run a Maxtor One-Touch 7200RPM external FW drive with my system on it off my eMac. It was faster than my internal drive. 😉

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I have a homebuilt FW drive - a Maxtor Ultra16 250GB in a Bytecc enclosure that does an overall score of around 93. I can post the details when I get home.
Since it is much faster than the internal drive, I installed OS X on it and boot from it now.

Battery power and not maxtor hd but wd 200gb and I think 7200rpm

Results 17.75
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.3.9 (7W98)
Physical RAM 1280 MB
Model PowerBook5,4
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.50 GHz
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 1.50 GHz
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
Video Card ATY,RV360M11
Drive Type Maxtor OneTouch
Disk Test 17.75
Sequential 12.53
Uncached Write 29.48 18.10 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 31.11 17.60 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 4.45 1.30 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 35.50 17.84 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 30.43
Uncached Write 11.90 1.26 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 55.72 17.84 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 67.82 0.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 68.02 12.62 MB/sec [256K blocks]

As the other just with electric power. usb test only in both casses.
I have seen that when other devices is connected active/inactive on usb there is loss of speed and performance, also when transfering files the transfer is limited to the max speed the internal hd cd/dvd can handle

Results 17.75
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.3.9 (7W98)
Physical RAM 1280 MB
Model PowerBook5,4
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.50 GHz
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 1.50 GHz
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
Video Card ATY,RV360M11
Drive Type Maxtor OneTouch
Disk Test 17.75
Sequential 12.54
Uncached Write 29.50 18.11 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 31.11 17.60 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 4.45 1.30 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 35.47 17.83 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 30.41
Uncached Write 11.90 1.26 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 55.74 17.84 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 67.62 0.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 67.59 12.54 MB/sec [256K blocks]

I have an 80gig western digital 7600 FW hd.
Results 30.80
Disk Test 17.40
Sequential 28.82
Uncached Write 14.00 8.59 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 41.00 23.20 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 36.97 10.82 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 62.79 31.56 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 12.46
Uncached Write 3.69 0.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 37.84 12.11 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 80.00 0.57 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 93.64 17.38 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Booted from an external 180GB 7200 Hitachi drive in an OWC Mercury Elite Pro-AL 400/USB2.0/1.1 case.

Disk Test 98.88
Sequential 90.06
Uncached Write 100.57 41.92 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 76.92 31.50 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 93.78 14.85 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 92.53 37.38 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 109.60
Uncached Write 107.39 1.61 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 131.39 29.63 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 104.63 0.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 99.85 20.55 MB/sec [256K blocks]

This was with Xbench 1.1.2.

Eric S.

These results are from a 30GB 7200rpm Maxtor drive. It's mounted in a generic Firewire enclosure. The results are better than when I'm booted into my Minis hard drive (26). I guess it's because the Minis drive only spins at 5400rpm

Results 32.60
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.3.9 (7W98)
Physical RAM 1024 MB
Model PowerMac10,1
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.25 GHz
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 1.25 GHz
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
Video Card ATY,RV280
Drive Type Maxtor 5 T030H3
Disk Test 32.60
Sequential 50.89
Uncached Write 53.05 32.57 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 57.09 32.30 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 36.39 10.65 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 67.78 34.07 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 23.98
Uncached Write 8.62 0.91 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 48.98 15.68 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 56.40 0.40 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 78.71 14.60 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Here is one for the books.

Imac 20" 1.25ghz 768mb ram with standard 80gb 7200rpm xbench = 49.22 for hd only on 10.4.2

Same Imac same specs except for HD replaced with Maxtor 160gb 7200rpm " 6y160p0 " = HD only Xbench = on 10.3.9

Results 71.12
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.3.9 (7W98)
Physical RAM 768 MB
Model PowerMac6,3
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.25 GHz
Version 7455 (Apollo) v3.3
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 256K @ 1.25 GHz
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
Video Card GeForce FX 5200
Drive Type Maxtor 6Y160P0
Disk Test 71.12
Sequential 102.97
Uncached Write 115.12 70.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 106.40 60.20 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 83.90 24.55 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 113.10 56.84 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 54.32
Uncached Write 20.73 2.19 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 132.01 42.26 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 95.67 0.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 135.91 25.22 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Not such good news 10.4.2 Tiger is definitely slower on G4's than 10.3.9

Results 64.46
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.4.2 (8C46)
Physical RAM 768 MB
Model PowerMac6,3
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.25 GHz
Version 7455 (Apollo) v3.3
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 256K @ 1.25 GHz
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
Video Card GeForce FX 5200
Drive Type Maxtor 6Y160P0
Disk Test 64.46
Sequential 83.83
Uncached Write 102.49 62.93 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 94.98 53.74 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 57.50 16.83 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 99.62 50.07 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 52.36
Uncached Write 21.97 2.33 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 90.14 28.86 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 84.31 0.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 126.18 23.41 MB/sec [256K blocks]