No-name External HDD, 250GB

The last product included into this review is a no-name 250GB external HDD. It has a typical exterior design and a minimum of connectors. It offers a USB port (a full-size connector rather than mini-USB) and no power connector. Its accessories include a USB cable (it can provide additional power from a second USB port) and a pouch. This HDD is based on a Fujitsu MHY2250BH hard disk.

Testbed and Methods

The following testing utilities were used:

• IOMeter 2003.02.15
• WinBench 99 2.0
• FC-Test 1.0

Testbed configuration:

• Albatron PX865PE Pro II mainboard
• Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz CPU
• IBM DTLA-307015 system disk, 15GB
• Radeon 7000 32MB graphics card
• 256MB DDR2-533 SDRAM
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2

We installed the generic OS drivers for the drives and formatted them in FAT32 and NTFS as one partition with the default cluster size. For some tests 32GB partitions were created on the drives and formatted in FAT32 and NTFS with the default cluster size, too. The eSATA interface was provided by a Promise SATA300 TX4302 controller.