Raid

[Nubius]

Well I know damn well for a fact now that it's not ATA133 so I'm going to assume it's ATA100 being that it's only getting an Average read of 23mb/sec which really sucks, and when that graph hits 13gb man, there's a HUGE spike that drops down...

this 20gigger is older than my 80gb though because the 80gb like I said had an average read of 49mb/sec and it hasn't been defragged which an analysis says it needs to be so I'm sure it'd get a little bit faster if I defragged, but yeah...I already looked and bookmarked a maxtor ATA133, 8mb Buffer, 7200RPM 80gb HD, I'd really rather have Western Digital, but I couldn't find WD with ATA133 =/ only ATA100 so that kind of sucks....never used maxtor before, I hate switching

 

[TheMajor]

My 7200 10GB Maxtor rocks

As long as your drive only reaches 23MB/s the UDMA133 transfer mode only gives you a slight performance increase compared to 100. Only the burst speeds will go up drastically (as you noticed in HD Tach)

 

[Nubius]

yeah that's why I plan on getting that 80gb maxtor I was telling you about, I know it'll support the faster speeds and should have a sustained read of atleast 50mb/sec

 

[4W4K3]

i went to fry's electronics and got my WD 80GB for $90 (one day sale...got lucky lol). I'm pretty happy with it, wish i had a 20GB and a 60GB though...could run RAID and you said it would load windows faster on a smaller drive dedicated for it. At least i got rid of those ugly rounded cables in there wit the SATA adapter looks a lil' cleaner

 

[Nubius]

the maxtor 80gb drive I'm looking at is $72, but of course a place like fry's will be more expensive. My setup isn't really cleaner since I have a second drive so that cable remains in there WITH that sata adapter and whatnot, and post speeds take a little bit longer, so is it really worth the burst speed boost?

 

[4W4K3]

the maxtor 80gb drive I'm looking at is $72, but of course a place like fry's will be more expensive. My setup isn't really cleaner since I have a second drive so that cable remains in there WITH that sata adapter and whatnot, and post speeds take a little bit longer, so is it really worth the burst speed boost?

if it takes longer than i guess it isn't what UDMA mode are you running right now?

I'm looking for regular IDE 80-pin cables...alll mine were given away and i only got 40-pin ones rounded cables are a pain to hide and they don't bend at all. tis' for cd-rom drive. where the F did i put them? i had like 30 of them i swear lol.

 

[Nubius]

I have no idea what UDMA mode it's running in. I don't even know where to change it and all that

 

[TheMajor]

WinXP allows your drives by default to run at their max speed, and as long as your IDE channels transfer speeds in the BIOS are set to auto there are a few things wich can limit the transfer mode. The IDE controller can be too slow or an ATAPI device can be blocking the HD, or you are using a 40conductor cable instead of 80. Make sure your HD is connected to the end of the cable when using 80wires and to the middle connector when using 40wired cables.