What are you using to measure the speeds? Paul
Mark Cassino wrote: > Digital Image Studio wrote: > > >> 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. >> > > You're right about DMA and the Maxtor drive.- the drive is actually on > the primary IDE controller but I just checked and it is operating in PIO > mode. "DMA if available" is checked and DEMA is enabled in the BIOS - > but PIO shows as the current mode. Maybe I have the jumpers on the drive > set incorrectly. To be honest the drive is just sitting there as extra > space - the the home of stalled projects that fall outside of the > normal work flow - and doesn't see much use. > > I ran the test on one of the backup drives - a Seagate EIDE 120 gig in a > Vantec caddy. (I think there is a Western Digital in the other caddy.) > It is on the secondary IDE channel and DMA is working for it. Running > the test on it, it comes in on par with the 250 gig SATA - which > surprises me since I thought that IDE was inherently slower than SATA. > > >> 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. >> > > Sounds like things are working well even with a 5 year old Mobo. > >> 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 >> > > What size is that drive? > > Aside from the WD's I'm also using an 80 gig Maxtor USB 2.0 drive and a > 40 gig Accomodata for miscellaneous backups. The Maxtor was the first > external USB 2.0 drive I bought, I think 3 years ago now. I stumbled > into it on the clearance table at an office supply store for only $35. I > think that would still be a good deal for an 80 gig external drive even > today. > > Later - > > MCC > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
