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Are my SATA drives running in the right mode?

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MarklarMarklar

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I recently purchased 2 seagate barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA drives. They are not running in raid. I connected them to the Silicon Image Sil 3112A RAID Controller on my a7n8x deluxe. The controller and the board both have the latest bios. Sandra says the drives are running in mwdma-2 mode. That can't be right. Anybody know how I can verify I'm getting the best performance from my drives?
 
Originally posted by: PorBleemo
Originally posted by: Accord99
Try using HD Tach and report the Read Burst Speed. If the speed is greater than 80MB/s, then they are running at an optimal mode.
http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach
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That seems low to me. My DiamondMax 9+ PATA (converted to SATA with adapter) gets 110MB/s burst.

-Por
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Tech-Reports gets burst results for the 7200.7 that matches MarklarMarklar results; which seems peculiar to me since the 7200.7 is supposed to be a native SATA drive. But as long as the burst speed is comfortably higher than the max read transfer rate, then it shouldn't affect performance.

http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2004q1/seagate-7200.7/index.x?pg=4
 
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