Maxtor 6B160M0 and Asus A7V600X

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Greetings,
Just brought a new hard drive, SATA Maxtor 6B160M0 160GB. Using that
on my Asus motherboard A7V600X. That's via chipset, with onboard SATA.
Compared to my old hard drive, which was a Seagate ST360021A 60GB it
is faster as stats show below:

SiSoft Sandra File System Benchmark:
Seagate Drive : 37 mb/s
Maxtor Drive : 48 mb/s

For the record I am running an Athlon XP 2200, 256MB PC3200 400Mhz
Ram, Radeon 7500 AGP graphics card, Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1
sound card.

So, its 10mb/s faster based on this test. Great of course, but should
I be expecting more from my drive(s)? Or is that an expected rate? I
have heard of the trouble Via chipsets cause with SATA (from browsing
the web). Is there a way "around" the problems?

I am very new to the SATA world. As you probably guessed.

Any help/comments/advice appreciated

Chris

 

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"Chris B" <mesio@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
news:a123410a.0504070703.61619a26@posting.google.com...
> Greetings,
> Just brought a new hard drive, SATA Maxtor 6B160M0 160GB. Using that
> on my Asus motherboard A7V600X. That's via chipset, with onboard SATA.
> Compared to my old hard drive, which was a Seagate ST360021A 60GB it
> is faster as stats show below:
>
> SiSoft Sandra File System Benchmark:
> Seagate Drive : 37 mb/s
> Maxtor Drive : 48 mb/s
>
> For the record I am running an Athlon XP 2200, 256MB PC3200 400Mhz
> Ram, Radeon 7500 AGP graphics card, Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1
> sound card.
>
> So, its 10mb/s faster based on this test. Great of course, but should
> I be expecting more from my drive(s)? Or is that an expected rate? I
> have heard of the trouble Via chipsets cause with SATA (from browsing
> the web). Is there a way "around" the problems?
>
> I am very new to the SATA world. As you probably guessed.
>
> Any help/comments/advice appreciated
>
> Chris

Good choice of drive.
Speed looks about right.
There is no real SATA speed advantage with a single (non-RAID 0) drive.
Sandra is not the best for program for giving you a good look at that jewel.
HD_Tach 3.0.0 gives a good view.
JPS

 

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My Seagate 200G ST3200822AS runs faster than the Maxtor 6Y200M0 (200G) I had
before. Also the Seagate has a 5 year warranty period.

The Maxtor drive was falty after running PM 7.0 on WinXP.


"Chris B" <mesio@btopenworld.com> escreveu na mensagem
news:a123410a.0504070703.61619a26@posting.google.com...
> Greetings,
> Just brought a new hard drive, SATA Maxtor 6B160M0 160GB. Using that
> on my Asus motherboard A7V600X. That's via chipset, with onboard SATA.
> Compared to my old hard drive, which was a Seagate ST360021A 60GB it
> is faster as stats show below:
>
> SiSoft Sandra File System Benchmark:
> Seagate Drive : 37 mb/s
> Maxtor Drive : 48 mb/s
>
> For the record I am running an Athlon XP 2200, 256MB PC3200 400Mhz
> Ram, Radeon 7500 AGP graphics card, Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1
> sound card.
>
> So, its 10mb/s faster based on this test. Great of course, but should
> I be expecting more from my drive(s)? Or is that an expected rate? I
> have heard of the trouble Via chipsets cause with SATA (from browsing
> the web). Is there a way "around" the problems?
>
> I am very new to the SATA world. As you probably guessed.
>
> Any help/comments/advice appreciated
>
> Chris

 

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On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:53:38 +0100, "NSA"
<m.silva@netcabo.pt> wrote:

>"Chris B" <mesio@btopenworld.com> escreveu na mensagem
>news:a123410a.0504070703.61619a26@posting.google.com...
>> Greetings,
>> Just brought a new hard drive, SATA Maxtor 6B160M0 160GB. Using that
>> on my Asus motherboard A7V600X. That's via chipset, with onboard SATA.
>> Compared to my old hard drive, which was a Seagate ST360021A 60GB it
>> is faster as stats show below:
>>
>> SiSoft Sandra File System Benchmark:
>> Seagate Drive : 37 mb/s
>> Maxtor Drive : 48 mb/s
>>

>My Seagate 200G ST3200822AS runs faster than the Maxtor 6Y200M0 (200G) I had
>before. Also the Seagate has a 5 year warranty period.
>
>The Maxtor drive was falty after running PM 7.0 on WinXP.
>

Differences like platter density can matter more than which
particular drive. Historically Maxtor drives were usually
faster than Seagate but in more recent times a comparison of
_contemporary_ models makes the performace between the two
similar, less of an issue than the warranty, IMO.

IOW, usually the performance increase comes from newer
models, generational improvements industry-wide, moreso than
changing brand (other things like NCQ, buffer size,
rotational speed, etc, remaining equal).

 

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"NSA" <m.silva@netcabo.pt> wrote in message news:<42568ce6$0$2000$a729d347@news.telepac.pt>...
> My Seagate 200G ST3200822AS runs faster than the Maxtor 6Y200M0 (200G) I had
> before. Also the Seagate has a 5 year warranty period.
>
> The Maxtor drive was falty after running PM 7.0 on WinXP.
>
>
> "Chris B" <mesio@btopenworld.com> escreveu na mensagem
> news:a123410a.0504070703.61619a26@posting.google.com...
> > Greetings,
> > Just brought a new hard drive, SATA Maxtor 6B160M0 160GB. Using that
> > on my Asus motherboard A7V600X. That's via chipset, with onboard SATA.
> > Compared to my old hard drive, which was a Seagate ST360021A 60GB it
> > is faster as stats show below:
> >
> > SiSoft Sandra File System Benchmark:
> > Seagate Drive : 37 mb/s
> > Maxtor Drive : 48 mb/s
> >
> > For the record I am running an Athlon XP 2200, 256MB PC3200 400Mhz
> > Ram, Radeon 7500 AGP graphics card, Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1
> > sound card.
> >
> > So, its 10mb/s faster based on this test. Great of course, but should
> > I be expecting more from my drive(s)? Or is that an expected rate? I
> > have heard of the trouble Via chipsets cause with SATA (from browsing
> > the web). Is there a way "around" the problems?
> >
> > I am very new to the SATA world. As you probably guessed.
> >
> > Any help/comments/advice appreciated
> >
> > Chris

Cheers for all the comments/opinions guys!

Chris