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WD Passport benchmarks

thezerox — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:26:23 +0000

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.

I bought Lumix DMC-TZ7

thezerox — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:58:18 +0000

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).

HTC Magic Video

thezerox — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:48:23 +0000

I uploaded my HTC Magic video:

iPhone OS 3.0 Tips

thezerox — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:18:00 +0000

iSmashPhone

iPhone OS 3.0 walkthrough (The iPhone blog)

And some funny stuff.

Flickr Uploadr

thezerox — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:24:12 +0000

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

HTC Magic (G2) Android phone

thezerox — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:17:51 +0000

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.

TweetDeck coming to iPhone

thezerox — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:19:13 +0000

TweetDeck is coming to iPhone: http://kevinrose.com/blogg/2009/6/16/tweetdeck-for-iphone-coming-soon.html

Logitech G9 pictures

thezerox — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:59:30 +0000

I uploaded some Logitech G9 Laser Mouse pictures to Flickr:

http://bit.ly/8GSn2

Safari 4

thezerox — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:22:33 +0000

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:

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

Logitech G9

thezerox — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:24:18 +0000

…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.