low ata66 scores in sisoft sandra

[Nexus7]

I have a WD 18 ata/66 7200 hd on my machine, the board I'm using is an MSI k7t pro2a mobo. The bios see's the drive as a ata/66 hd and DMA is checked in WinME. The question is that in Sisoft Sandra benchmarks in the Drive rating scores the standard score for an ata/66 drive is 16,000 but my drive is only 13,000. I have 256megs of ram and running a t-bird 900. What can I do to get a higher score, or is my drive just screwed up. It's score is between ata33 and ata66.
Thanks

 

[stable]

That rating sounds right for your drive under WIndows ME.

Steve Benoit

Stable Technologies
'The way IT should be!'

 

[Nexus7]

oh ok, is it because my drive is old? or is it an ME issue.

 

[stable]

I suspect ME. Our experience shows with the ME features enabled, most systems will run about from 20 to 30% slower than if they were using Windows 98 S/E.. Hence, if you used a 25% average you would get 13,000x1.25=16,250

Steve Benoit

Stable Technologies
'The way IT should be!'

 

[Nexus7]

did not that.....thanks for the info. I'll note that when I build my next machine.

 

[Bubba]

I had a 5400 RPM ATA66 drive and I got about 16000.
Now I have a 7200 RPM ATA100 on the ATA100 port of the A7V and I get about 20000.
I am using WinMe.
There has to be something else wrong. Its not the OS.

-Gimme oysters and beer for dinner everyday of the year and I'll feel fine.

 

[stable]

You have disabled your autorecovery have you not?

As a heads up, my ata-100 drive under Windows 98 S/E is coming through at 21373. I'm also told by my tech's that with the latest version of this software, the Windows ME mods have been input and they put they average for ATA-66 at 13,000. You'd be hard pressed to get a 5400-RPM ATA-66 to show 16,000 under ME. I'd like to see a copy of that test report.


Steve Benoit

Stable Technologies
'The way IT should be!'

 

[phsstpok]

My Maxtor DiamondMax 40, 5400 rpm drive scores 19787 on the primary partition and 18531 on the extended partition. That's in Windows 98SE. The drive is an ATA-100 but my KT7 mobo only supports ATA-66.