Slow hard drive performance on A7N8X Deluxe

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Oliver Haslam

I have a WD Caviar SE 80GB drive on a Deluxe board. When I run the
benchmark in Sisoft Sandra 2003, the results are rather disappointing when
compared with similar drives within the software.
The POST reports the drive is running at ATA100 as I would expect. Is this
just a case of Sandra being a little off the pace, or is there a setting in
the bios I am missing? File transfers from one partition to another take
around 5mins for 2.5gb. That about right?

TIA

Oli
 
I have a WD Caviar SE 80GB drive on a Deluxe board. When I run the
benchmark in Sisoft Sandra 2003, the results are rather disappointing when
compared with similar drives within the software.
The POST reports the drive is running at ATA100 as I would expect. Is this
just a case of Sandra being a little off the pace, or is there a setting in
the bios I am missing? File transfers from one partition to another take
around 5mins for 2.5gb. That about right?

TIA

Oli
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seems about right for copy within one HD. If you're running xp with an 80 way ribbon then
transfer mode should have defaulted anyway to dma mode 5 - that's as good as you'll get.
 
curiosity said:
seems about right for copy within one HD. If you're running xp with an 80 way ribbon then
transfer mode should have defaulted anyway to dma mode 5 - that's as good as you'll get.
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Is there anywhere actually in windows that will tell me? Sure it used to be
in Sys Props, be damned if I can find it though

Oli
 
Is there anywhere actually in windows that will tell me? Sure it used to be
in Sys Props, be damned if I can find it though

Oli
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start/control panel/system/hardware/device manager/IDE controllers

- look at properties for each ide channel
 
Yeah it says it's running in mode 5. Thing is in Sisoft Sandra (newest
ver.) it reckons Im getting 23475kB/s in the file system test. The examples
if gives has one that's pretty much the same drive as mine, but kicking out
about 33000kB/s. I know benching isnt always a good yard-stick, but still,
can someone put my mind at rest and tell me there's nowthing wrong ? :)

Oli
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there's nothing wrong with that performance - i'm running a seagate 80Gb here with much
the same reading on sisoft as you're getting. In any case, there won't be many occasions -
if any - when your system will need to reach anything like the transfer rates your drive
is capable of; bottlenecks abound elsewhere.
 
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