I used hiren’s boot cd, to resize my one big ntfs partition, now I have two partitions, one ntfs and one mac os extended partition. Make sure you create a partition on the free space, doesn’t matter what format, then on your mac erase it. Oh yeah and since I have an external hard drive enclosure, I took my hard drive out, and plugged it back into my other computer. Don’t think any of the programs on hiren’s boot cd support usb, and usb would be slower, then SATA 2.
New speed results:
NTFS partition: 20 Mbits/s
Mac OS Extended partition: 33 Mbits/s
Since the speed difference isn’t that much, I’m not going to copy the data from the NTFS over to the Mac OS Extended partition. I’ll just have two partitions.
I used Acronis Disk Director Suite, which is included on Hiren’s BootCD.
You can find hiren’s boot cd, on findfiles.com. Just search for “hiren”, without the quotes.
I’m using the beta version of Paragon NTFS driver for Mac OS X.
To test the speed of the hard drive, I’m using Disk Speed Bench X.
Update
Just for the hell of it, I tested the speed of the hard drive, with xbench.
Mac OS Extended:
Results 40.66
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.4.10 (8R3014)
Physical RAM 1024 MB
Model Macmini2,1
Drive Type ST330062 0AS
Disk Test 40.66
Sequential 56.37
Uncached Write 52.40 32.17 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 55.07 31.16 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 47.95 14.03 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 77.72 39.06 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 31.80
Uncached Write 11.05 1.17 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 67.38 21.57 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 87.99 0.62 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 110.13 20.43 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Can’t run the complete test on the NTFS partition, It says “A disk error occured that prevented this test from completing (-48)”.
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