A little reassurance please....or maybe just some help with my HDD performance!

[loosbrew]

hey all,
i rarely benchmark my system and when i do i either use Sandra 2001te, or Dr Hardware. usually i dont care about CPU or Memory speeds, what i am more concerned about is HDD speed. well the other day i noticed that my system wasnt running quite up to par compared to what it used to, and i just recently reinstalled the OS (win2kAS), so i decided to do a HDD benchmark in sandra 2001te. i got a score of 13000 and an average seek time of 13ms??? this doesnt sound very right. i even did a boot time defrag via diskkeeper before hand. anyone have any ideas? the system specs are as follows...


CPU: AMD Athlon 900MHz @ 1066MHz
Motherboard: Iwill KK266-r
Memory: 512 MB of Cruciual, Kingston PC133
Video Card: Hercules 4500 (Kyro II)
Hard Drive: IBM 60 GXP 20.0 GB @ 7200 RPMS
Additional Hard Drives: Samsung 6 gig 5400 rpms
Monitor: Cybervision C70
CDROM Manufacturer & Model: Aopen 52X
CDR/CDRW Manufacturer & Model: I/O Magic 8x4x32
Storage Interface: IDE

Sound Card: Onboard
Internet Provider: AT&T @home
Internet Connection Type: Cable

Internet Connection Speed: 2200 mbps
Operating System: Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2


not sure why i would be getting such low performance out of this system....it used to fly!

loosbrew

 

[loosbrew]

Oh, i also checked that all my DMA settings in windows were in order...HDD in UDMA mode, so i dont think thats the problem..but maybe its in udma 4 instead of 5??

loosbrew

 

[bacillus]

<< Additional Hard Drives: Samsung 6 gig 5400 rpms >>


what are the specs on that hdd & is it on the same ide channel as the IBM??

 

[loosbrew]

the Samsung drive is on the AMI raid controller...the IBM is the only drive on the VIA ata100 controller. i have a cdrom and cdrw on the secondary controller and as mentioned the samsung is on the ami controller.

loosbrew

 

[loosbrew]

up!

 

[NateSLC]

Are you sure there were no services accessing the Hard Drive durning the benchmark?

 

[loosbrew]

possibly....ill look into it...also i will be formatting and installing Winxp rc2 build 2535 soon so i'll see if that fixes it. i was juts lokoing for maybe a known issue with my setup that i may have missed!

loosbrew