Instructions: Given an Amazon review, indicate whether it is a 'Positive Review' or 'Negative Review'.
Input: Hi! I just got this drive (has been using it for around 18 hours so far), so I won't talk about reliability yet. My setup: + Dell Inspiron 6400 (2 x Intel Core Duo - 32 bits 1.83GHz) and old Compaq v2000 (1 x Turion 64 1.8GHz). + RAM: doesn't matter (really, I'm not testing cached reads/writes). + Debian GNU/Linux Lenny. + LUKS encrypted hard drive (cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 - 128bits). + ext2 filesystem over LUKS through device manager (DM). Transfer rates: Dell Inspiron 6400: Sequential Write (bypassing OS cache, encrypting): 23.9MB/s Sequential Read (direct I/O, bypassing OS cache, encrypting): 24.5MB/s Sequential Read (direct I/O, no filesystem, no encrypting): 31.9MB/s Compaq V2000: Sequential Write (bypassing OS cache, encrypting): 20.9MB/s Sequential Read (direct I/O, bypassing OS cache, encrypting): 22.4MB/s Sequential Read (direct I/O, no filesystem, no encrypting): 22.1MB/s I measured this on a Dell Inspiron 6400, running Debian GNU/Linux. I'm very pleased, I know there are faster external HD out there, but this runs very cool, and is really quiet, I can only tell it is working when I put my hand over it. I'm glad I got this hard drive.
Output:
Positive Review