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WD Passport benchmarks

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Two months ago I bought a Western Digital My Passport Studio 500GB with USB 2.0/Firewire 800/400. It has a 5400rpm hard disk. It is self-powered what was the main reason I bought. First, I was looking for an external hard disk that has inside a 7200rpm hard disk and is self-powered. I couldn’t find such thing. So I decided for this one. I am pleased with this model. It is quiet, except there are sometimes clickings, but that is that annoying. The second most important thing was the Firewire 800 port for my iMac.

And of course I made some benchmarks if you are interested in for some numbers.

Created a 1GB big file named benchmark_1G in Terminal:
dd if=/dev/zero of=benchmark_1G bs=1m count=1024

Copied the file benchmark_1G from iMac’s HDD to WD Passport and vice versa (HFS+ partition):
time cp benchmark_1G /Volumes/My\ Passport/ (for writing)
time cp benchmark_1G /Users/$home_folder (for reading)

Firewire 800 results:

Writing
real 0m19.622s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m1.281s

That is 52,24 MB/s. That is not bad at all because the WD Passport has a 5400rpm hard disk.

Reading
real 0m20.525s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m1.514s

That is 49,95 MB/s.

USB 2.0 results:

Writing
real 0m34.243s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m1.313s

29,91 MB/s.

Reading
real 0m26.476s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m1.253s

38,67 MB/s.

Written by thezerox

July 15, 2009 at 21:26

I bought Lumix DMC-TZ7

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I’m already charging the battery. The zooming is great (remember, it is not a SLR camera). A short review later.

Update: very cool video (via Twitter search).

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July 3, 2009 at 18:58

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HTC Magic Video

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I uploaded my HTC Magic video:

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June 22, 2009 at 22:48

Posted in Android, Hardware, HTC, Linux, video

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iPhone OS 3.0 Tips

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June 20, 2009 at 11:18

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Flickr Uploadr

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Flickr Uploadr it my tool for uploading pictures to Flickr. Simple app, easy to use, fits my needs.

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June 18, 2009 at 00:24

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HTC Magic (G2) Android phone

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The phone was in my hands. It is from the Google I/O conference. The phone is not bad. But I think iPhone 3G’s touch screen is better. I made some pictures of it. A video will follow.

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June 18, 2009 at 00:17

Posted in Android, Hardware, HTC

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TweetDeck coming to iPhone

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June 16, 2009 at 21:19

Posted in apple, Apps, iphone

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Logitech G9 pictures

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I uploaded some Logitech G9 Laser Mouse pictures to Flickr:

http://bit.ly/8GSn2

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June 16, 2009 at 00:59

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Safari 4

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As you maybe noticed, Safari 4 is out. I like it very much. Fast website loading, Google Maps is working really fast and the Top Sites tab is cool.

And the Reload “button” is here:

Reload

1Password is not working for now, but version 3 is in the work (you can also get beta 3).

Written by thezerox

June 10, 2009 at 00:22

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Logitech G9

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…is here. I got it today, hm, yesterday. Made some pictures of it, I will upload them to Flickr.

How is it behaving? Very nice. Plugged into my iMac and worked immediately. The best mouse I ever had. It is very easy to handle. The two buttons on the left side are clicking very softly. The wheel-click has also a silent and soft sound.

The only bad is there is no Setpoint software for Mac OS X. But I installed Logitech Control Center. I must restart my iMac first and then will see how is it working.

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May 26, 2009 at 00:24

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