Slow hard drive

[Guest]

I recently built my own computer for the first time. I built it w/ an ABIT KT7A-Raid motherboard and attached an IBM 75GXP 46.11 GB hard drive (7200rpm, 8.5ms seek time). I suspected that it was taking a little longer to copy files than it should so I ran Dacris Benchmark and it said that my performance overall is great but my hard drive is very slow. Is there anyway to optimize the hard drive performance? Could this be caused by my motherboard? I'm stuck! HELP!!

 

[HonestJhon]

what do you mean by low?
what are you comparing it to?
and what score did you get....and where did you get this program...maye i can run it on mine...see what i get.


-DAvid

-Live, Learn, then build your own computer!-

 

[blue_heart]

right, low comparing to what? and what readings you are getting from the benchmark?, however i think that your board has via chip, if so make sure that you installed via 4in1 latest driver (4.35) which include the ide driver, therefore you ide controller in the device manager will be read as ide bus master

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[HonestJhon]

i still want the program so that i can benchmark mine, and let him compare it to mine....
i mean, i think mine is pretty fast...
K7S5A with a maxtor diamond max d740x 40 gig ata-133 7200 rpm 2 meg buffer...
anyone have a link to the program that he is using?

-DAvid

-Live, Learn, then build your own computer!-

 

[blue_heart]

go to www.passmark.com

and then install performance test, afte that you will find many benchmarks, choose the disk in order to test the disk.
if everything is ok with you then i think you will have not less than 35mb/sex read trasnfer rate, if it is less than 30 then i think you have some problems

good luck

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[HonestJhon]

hmm..i ran the test, i just clicked test, All,
and i dont know what result to look at...
here is what i got..i just exported it to a text file, and copied it.
now mind you, my computer is VERY fast when it comes to accessing files and such...
sure, not raid, or the latest scsi, but it is WAYY faster than my friend computer with the xp1600+, especially when loading games.


Computer Disk - Sequential Read Disk - Sequential Write Disk - Random Seek + RW Disk mark
This Computer 20.32 45.00 4.10 183.28


i dont know what that means...
anyone know if this is good?

-DAvid

-Live, Learn, then build your own computer!-

 

[blue_heart]

confirm that your read is 20.32 (about 20 mb/sec)
and write 45.00 (45mb/sec)
random seek 4.1 (4mb/sec)

maybe you did some mistake, so make sure if the write is 45 or 20

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[HonestJhon]

how could i have made a mistake...what i did was copy and paste this info from the text file it created..
are those scores high, or low?

-DAvid

-Live, Learn, then build your own computer!-

 

[blue_heart]

your read should be 45 and write 20, if it is 20 for read and 45 for write then there is something wrong

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