Hard Driv speed testing

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Daniel

Hi

I am running a PC with Vista Ultimate, I have a real concern that my new
10,000 RPM drive in not performing well, it tests okay with DOS hard drive
tests but that just says no errors or faults not that the dive is running to
speed.

Is there a program I can use to test the drive for performance, I have a
second drive that is 7,200RPM, it is the same make and half the cache size
but seems to be quicker, I can use that as a benchmark.

thanks for any help

regards

Daniel
 
Daniel said:
Hi

I am running a PC with Vista Ultimate, I have a real concern that my new
10,000 RPM drive in not performing well, it tests okay with DOS hard drive
tests but that just says no errors or faults not that the dive is running
to speed.

Is there a program I can use to test the drive for performance, I have a
second drive that is 7,200RPM, it is the same make and half the cache size
but seems to be quicker, I can use that as a benchmark.

thanks for any help

regards

Daniel
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HDTach
http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach
 
Daniel said:
Hi

I am running a PC with Vista Ultimate, I have a real concern that my new
10,000 RPM drive in not performing well, it tests okay with DOS hard drive
tests but that just says no errors or faults not that the dive is running
to speed.

Is there a program I can use to test the drive for performance, I have a
second drive that is 7,200RPM, it is the same make and half the cache size
but seems to be quicker, I can use that as a benchmark.

thanks for any help

regards

Daniel
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Do you have Nero DVD software? There is a basic drive speed tester in there.

Tell us more about the drives. The latest Western Digital SE16 750GB and
1000TB drives are nearly as fast as the last generation Raptors, so what
drives are you comparing and what tasks are you comparing?
 
GT said:
Do you have Nero DVD software? There is a basic drive speed tester in
there.

Tell us more about the drives. The latest Western Digital SE16 750GB and
1000TB drives are nearly as fast as the last generation Raptors, so what
drives are you comparing and what tasks are you comparing?
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I do Have Nero 7, I will give it a go.

The drives are
C: A WD 150G 10,000 RPM 32Mb Cache
D: A WD 160G 7,2000 RPM 16MB Cache
I could have the Cache numbers wrong but I do know that the
cache 10K is twice the size of the 7.2K.

The 7.2K used to be the C: Drive and the PC performed general better,
with higher 3M Marks, and programs opening quicker, also big spreadsheet
calculations taking a lot less time.

I think the 10K drive has not been installed properly but I do not know
where to start
looking, I figured that if I had hard evidence I could go to the installer
shop and have them
fix the problem.

cheers

Daniel
 
Daniel said:
I do Have Nero 7, I will give it a go.

The drives are
C: A WD 150G 10,000 RPM 32Mb Cache
D: A WD 160G 7,2000 RPM 16MB Cache
I could have the Cache numbers wrong but I do know that the
cache 10K is twice the size of the 7.2K.

The 7.2K used to be the C: Drive and the PC performed general better,
with higher 3M Marks, and programs opening quicker, also big spreadsheet
calculations taking a lot less time.

I think the 10K drive has not been installed properly but I do not know
where to start
looking, I figured that if I had hard evidence I could go to the installer
shop and have them
fix the problem.
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Are they Parallel EIDE drives or SATA drives? If they are PATA (also known
as EIDE, ATA133, ATA100 etc) , then check that they are working at DMA mode
4 (or higher?) - Check this in the device manager of XP - primary and
secondary IDEo channels in the IDE controllers section of device manager of
XP.
 
Daniel said:
Does not work with Vista

cheers

Daniel
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I didn't check the version there - sorry - the latest is 3.0.4.0 and it does
work with Vista.
I've used it on Vista Home Premium myself.
 
How do you do that in Vista??
GT said:
Are they Parallel EIDE drives or SATA drives? If they are PATA (also known
as EIDE, ATA133, ATA100 etc) , then check that they are working at DMA
mode 4 (or higher?) - Check this in the device manager of XP - primary and
secondary IDEo channels in the IDE controllers section of device manager
of XP.
Click to expand...
 
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