Poor WD performance

[Jake75]

I ran my Western Digital 80Gb (Special Edition) drive in SisoftSandra
yesterday and was somewhat dissapointed at the results I got.
32Mb/s...could this be right?, I expected around 40-45Mb/s.

I´ve installed latest 4In1´s...
A couple of months ago I installed a 'stand alone' IDE driver from VIA that
dramatically increased my performance, problem is I can´t find it or remember
the name of it now, anyone know what I´m refering to?

Thanks...

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[HammerBot]

Sisoft sandra tests the filesystem and the not drive. So if you have a lot of files on the drive and if its fragmented a lot those are the scores you get.
Try defragmenting before testing, or use HDTach to test the drive without concern on the filesystem.


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[Jake75]

The filesystem? who cares about that?, I want a raw performance test, pfah! :tongue:
Well, I try HdTach out and see if things gets any better.
Thanks.

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[Jake75]

Ok...I checked HD tach and got following results.

Sequential speed (the graph) is in the top of the screen the whole time, I asume this is good?

Random Access times is 9,2Ms

Read Burst Speed is 80Mb/s

Readspeed, Max:49,5Mb/s, Min:42,6Mb/s, Avg:48,5Mb/s

So, does everything looks good?

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[HammerBot]

Access time 9.2 Megaseconds? I just assume you mean milliseconds (ms) :lol:
but anyway, yes, I think that look reasonable.

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[Napoleon]

Readspeed, Max:49,5MB/s, Min:42,6MB/s, Avg:48,5MB/s

That Cant Be. Be careful about those capital/small letters.

(Envious drool) 42MB/s minimum... I'd like that on my rig. Who cares about writes, on my rig and everyday use, the ratio is roughly 90/10 in favour of reads. I WANT min. 40MB/s reads...

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