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I bought a new motherboard and CPU combination the other day, and plugged everything in. It worked (eventually). I decided to check and make sure everything was running. Sure enough, the new CPU seemed to be working. Everything was fine, apart from the hard drive, a Maxtor 6Y060L0.
I benchmarked the hard drive, and it came out at around 20,000 kb/s. This was roughly equivalent to an ATA 100 5,400 rpm model, apparently. The only thing about that is that it's a 7,200 rpm ATA 133 model. The motherboard is capable of running ATA 133, the hard drive is capable of running ATA 133, I bought an ATA 133 cable. I have DMA turned on in the BIOS, and according to Windows XP, it's running on Ultra DMA Mode 5.
Why isn't it faster? Why? For the love of god, why?
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I have no idea what that means. It's in IDE socket 0 on the motherboard (the one the manual told me to plug it in to), and it's configured as the master and all that.
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Hmm, what motherboard and what are you using to benchmark the drive? Are you comparing read performance or burst performance?
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The motherboard is an ASRock K7VT2, with a 2400+ Athalon and 256 of DDR memory.
I used S.A.N.D.R.A. to benchmark the drive. Is there any ither software you'd recommend? I tried using the Powermax utility that's on the Maxtor web-site, but that couldn't even find the drive.
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Hmmmmm, I tried the same thing with a Matrox 6L060J3 (a 60GB drive, also with ATA 133) and I'm getting pretty much the same results, 21 MB/s with Windows cache, 20MB/s without. My guess is that the projections they use are overly optimistic. Also on their help page,
quote: Q: My drive/RAID array is in ATA133 mode but gets no better performance than ATA100 mode! A: Most PCI33 interfaces are limited to ~90MB/s due to bus contention and overheads. PCI 64-bit/66MHz/X adapters are recommended to get the best of the ATA interface.
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