February 25th, 2008 by Chris
How about some hard drive stats on the Cloudbook under Windows XP. I used an application called HDTach to guage this. Both of these graphs are using the normal test (not the quickie one). I’d put the internal HD of the Cloudbook on par with any basic external USB hard drive on a full system. 18-20GB /second is the going rate, I get that from my USB-based Drobo drive array on an HP server, and an 120GB external USB drive I use on my PC’s occasionally.
Note: I didn’t see any major performance increase in running the HD in 32-bit mode (setting change from the BIOS). The stats are about the same no matter what option you choose in the BIOS.
Cloudbook Hard Drive performance
Cloudbook Hard Drive performance in 32-bit mode (setting from BIOS)
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February 25th, 2008 by Chris
Ok, this’ll be the last post for tonight that I bombard my blog with. How about a video of the Cloudbook running Google Earth? This is at the native 800×480 mode, which Google Earth warns isn’t optimal. It suggests 1024×768 for the dialog boxes and interface to be usable. It’s right actually, most of the controls on the left of the application are unusable at this low of a resolution.
I started it out in normal mode, and then switched to full screen. The choppiness you see at the start when the Earth starts to load and move is due to disk activity. Once that completes, you can see that it’s very smooth. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrAMmzYXfaA
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