DHL Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 I know this problem is quite common but I have found no solution for it. I am experiencing some slow HDD performance when working with "heavy" apps (PS, Ill, Lightroom, Final Cut etc.) with files, stored on NTFS partitions. Here are my XBench results for OSX system partition (Mac OS Extended, NOT Journalled): Disk Test 6.74 Sequential 5.55 Uncached Write 4.65 2.86 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 4.71 2.67 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 8.86 2.59 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 5.53 2.78 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 8.59 Uncached Write 4.02 0.43 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 7.59 2.43 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 72.01 0.51 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 14.11 2.62 MB/sec [256K blocks] And here is a WinXP NTFS partition: Disk Test 17.87 Sequential 9.45 Uncached Write 4.65 2.86 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 4.84 2.74 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 591.29 173.04 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 4222.57 2122.23 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 164.20 Uncached Write 41.62 4.41 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 5032.04 1610.94 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 23310.85 165.19 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 11158.31 2070.50 MB/sec [256K blocks] ...and a data NTFS drive: Disk Test 147.45 Sequential 89.10 Uncached Write 39.96 24.53 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 58.71 33.22 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 388.31 113.64 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 3849.93 1934.95 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 427.26 Uncached Write 304.77 32.26 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 4741.24 1517.85 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 15358.77 108.84 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 172.27 31.97 MB/sec [256K blocks] So, it looks like the native HFS partition works much slower then NTFS ones. How could this be fixed? All HDD's are shown as "ATA" in DiscUtil. Hardware: CPU: Q6600 MB: GA P35-DS3R Mem: 2GB 667@800MHz Graphics: 8600GT 256mb Audio: ALC889a 80GB SATA (WinXP system, OSX system) 250GB SATA 500GB USB (external) Install: Kalyway 10.5.1 (without additional kexts or Vanilla) ComboUpdate 10.5.2 EFI graphics Paragon NTFS for OSX Thank you in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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