On 21/05/07, Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rob - > > My results - > > 70 gig WD Raptor SATA Drive - 12 seconds to save, 15 to load. > 250 gig WD SATA - 20 seconds to save, 20 seconds to load. > 120 gig Maxtor EIDE drive - 2 minutes to save and 1:45 to load (!) > 500 gig WD My Book USB 2.0 drive - 35 seconds to save, 35 seconds to load. > > The system is a Athlon 4200+ dual core, 3 gigs fairly slow ram (333) > running Windows XP x64 edition. > > Not sure what's up with the Maxtor 120 gig drive... The external usb > drive is faster than I expected.
Hi Mark, Thanks for doing that, in the main your results pretty much accord with mine, though the speed of your Maxtor is bit of a mystery. Maybe your Secondry contoller isn't set to DMA mode? In the Device manager under the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers tab check the Advanced Settings for the IDE channels, set transfer mode to "DMA if available" if it's not already set (that's for WK2, should be similar for XP) and see how it performs. My motherboard is a 2002 Supermicro design which I commissioned in early 2004 so it seems like it's still offering reasonable performance. My local RAID 0 consists of a Pair of the original WD Raptors on an early Promise RAID card, maybe a later card would lead to a slight performance increase. I added my Maxtor external USB drive which I use for off-line back-up to the table for comparison. http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/PS_data_rates.html -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
