7200.10 RPM running a little slow?

[ViviTheMage]

I have a perpendiculuar 7200.10 RPMSeagate 320gig I picked up and I run HD Tach and it shows me its only doing 66mb/s... how can I change the DMA or something to up that to 258 (what I have seen in reviews).

 

[Madwand1]

66 MB/s average read rate is about right for this drive. Compare your results with some of these:

http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=22660&st=25

Burst rates are pretty variable, and sometimes give crazy results in HDTach. I wouldn't worry too much about that.

 

[Bobthelost]

You have NOT seen 268MB in reviews. Not of single drives. 66mb is right.

 

[ViviTheMage]

see how they get in the 250s, or even 150s would be fine...how can I change it to do 3.0MBS ?

 

[ViviTheMage]

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=467102

EDIT : average is 66...okay nevermind 🙂 I guess its running correctly.

 

[Bobthelost]

*throws self off building*

The interface can do 3.0Gb/s, the hard drive can only handle 66MB/s.

Read the graph for crying out loud. BURST SPEED. It shows a LOWER average speed than you're getting.

 

[Baked]

Your HD's broken, my 7200.10 can do 2058 MB/s.

 

[Skott]

On the back of the Seagate 7200.10 250Gb and 320Gb drives is a little tiny jumper. Pull it off and it'll set it to SATA 3Gb/s. This is something I found on the NewEgg reviews when researching these drive. I did it on mine (250Gb) and it does indeed set it to run at the faster speeds. If you dont remove the jumper it'll run at the slower SATA speed.

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: Skott
On the back of the Seagate 7200.10 250Gb and 320Gb drives is a little tiny jumper. Pull it off and it'll set it to SATA 3Gb/s. This is something I found on the NewEgg reviews when researching these drive. I did it on mine (250Gb) and it does indeed set it to run at the faster speeds. If you dont remove the jumper it'll run at the slower SATA speed.

It won't make a difference