beninfl Posted April 8, 2003 Posted April 8, 2003 I have a laptop (Presario 900Z) and I just got a 3-port firewire pcmcia card. Now I bought a external enclosure (ME-720F) from compgeeks and put my 80GB 7200rpm in it. I connect everything, run a benchmark in SiSoftware SANDRA and the drive index is only 10MB/s. Then I took the enclosure and pcmcia card and connected them to another friend's Sony laptop. he got the expected 20MB/s in SANDRA also. So the card is not the prob either. So it's not the enclosure's problem, not the harddrive's problem, nor the PCMCIA card's problem. I'm baffled. I'm totally stuck. BTW - I also have minimal background services running, and have recently defragged so my laptop runs pretty fast. It's just that I get 10MB/s in SANDRA. I can't think of anything else that can be wrong. I tried switching around the cable in the ports. No difference. I mean, IEEE1394 is IEEE1394, it's a standard. But I'm getting exactly half the speed. Thanks. Any help is appreciated. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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