ata 100 Controllers/Hard drives

[damocles]

I see that promise has an ata 100 controller and Maxtor are producing ata 100 drives now (along with others i am sure).
Anybody seen reviews of any ata drives and controllers?

 

[pm]

Best place to look is:

http://www.storagereview.com

 

[damocles]

No reviews there that i can see

 

[pm]

I didn't actually look before I posted... no time. Sorry. It was a pretty good guess though... looking now it looks like they have shifted more towards SCSI drives.

 

[damocles]

Thanx Anyway, i appreciate the link.

ata 100 reviews seem scarce at the moment. Which seems odd to me because Hard Drives slow down the PC so much.

The Maxtor iam looking at is only $15 more for the ata 100 vs ata 66, so it seems clear to me unless there is something fundamentally problematic with the format

 

[Ulysses]

I haven't seen any reviews yet either, but I think the hot setup is expected to be the IBM with the 15 GB platters. The IBM should displace the Maxtor as top dog.

I think I saw a review of the Cheetah X15 SCSI drive and a comparison to an IDE RAID with 2 ATA/100 IBM's:

http://www.gamepc.org/reviews/hardware_review.asp?review=cheetahx15&page=1

 

[tommyc]

I haven't seen any reviews on it but I've got the Promise Ultra100
controller with an 15 gig IBM 75GXP plugged into it. I forgot my
scores on SciSoft Sandra but they were fantastic. The drive is FAST
and nearly silent. I haven't found any bugs with the Promise either.
SuperMicro SC760A
Asus P3BF-6
PIII 600e @ 800mhz
Kenwood 72X
SBLIVE X-Gamer
Anihilator 2
128 megs Mushkin rev.2 @ 2 2 2

tommyc

 

[Shuxclams]

Just ordered a FastTrack 100 and two 75GXP 20.5GB ATA/100 drives, should have the box built for this guy late next week,


SHUX

 

[pm]

tommyc: I have a friend who is trouble-shooting that exact setup. His scores are not very impressive to me, but I lack a reference. Could you put up your numbers for Sandra? And Norton SysInfo and HDTach if you have them...

Thanks

 

[tommyc]

Here is a report from Sandra. Of 12 tests......lowest drive index
was @ 20150 highest was @ 22480. Only minor (?!) variations in other numbers, I've seen buffered read up to 506 and buffered write up to
480. My PCI bus speed (Asus P3BF-6) settings are almost identical
at either 100mhz or 133mhz setting, so no diff seen in Sandy Score.
Don't have norton, got HDTACH somwhere. Now I'm curious to try
Tach myself. Soon as I find (or dload) it.

<< Hard Disk (C >>
< Benchmark Results >
This Drive: Drive Index: 21378
UDMA66 27GB: Drive Index: 13000
UDMA33 10GB: Drive Index: 8000
UDMA 6.4GB: Drive Index: 6500
EIDE 4GB: Drive Index: 3500

< Disk Status >
Multi-Processor Test: No
Test Uses Cache: Yes
Test File Size: 192MB
Current Disk Cache: 79MB
Maximum Disk Cache: 121MB
Minimum Disk Cache: 5MB
Typical Role: Desktop Computer

< Benchmark Breakdown >
Buffered Read: 353 MB/s
Sequential Read: 31 MB/s
Random Read: 9 MB/s
Buffered Write: 310 MB/s
Sequential Write: 16 MB/s
Random Write: 12 MB/s
Average Access Time: 5 ms (estimated)

< Drive >
Drive Class: Fixed
Drive Device: IBM-DTLA -307015
Total Space: 2.9GB
Free Space: 2.4GB, 83%

<< Hard Disk (D >>
< Benchmark Results >
This Drive: Drive Index: 20034
UDMA66 27GB: Drive Index: 13000
UDMA33 10GB: Drive Index: 8000
UDMA 6.4GB: Drive Index: 6500
EIDE 4GB: Drive Index: 3500

< Disk Status >
Multi-Processor Test: No
Test Uses Cache: Yes
Test File Size: 192MB
Current Disk Cache: 81MB
Maximum Disk Cache: 121MB
Minimum Disk Cache: 5MB
Typical Role: Desktop Computer

< Benchmark Breakdown >
Buffered Read: 415 MB/s
Sequential Read: 29 MB/s
Random Read: 9 MB/s
Buffered Write: 304 MB/s
Sequential Write: 14 MB/s
Random Write: 13 MB/s
Average Access Time: 5 ms (estimated)

< Drive >
Drive Class: Fixed
Drive Device: IBM-DTLA -307015
Total Space: 2.9GB
Free Space: 2.4GB, 84%

<< Hard Disk (E >>
< Benchmark Results >
This Drive: Drive Index: 19420
UDMA66 27GB: Drive Index: 13000
UDMA33 10GB: Drive Index: 8000
UDMA 6.4GB: Drive Index: 6500
EIDE 4GB: Drive Index: 3500

< Disk Status >
Multi-Processor Test: No
Test Uses Cache: Yes
Test File Size: 192MB
Current Disk Cache: 83MB
Maximum Disk Cache: 121MB
Minimum Disk Cache: 5MB
Typical Role: Desktop Computer

< Benchmark Breakdown >
Buffered Read: 378 MB/s
Sequential Read: 27 MB/s
Random Read: 9 MB/s
Buffered Write: 36 MB/s
Sequential Write: 14 MB/s
Random Write: 15 MB/s
Average Access Time: 5 ms (estimated)

< Drive >
Drive Class: Fixed
Drive Device: IBM-DTLA -307015
Total Space: 2.9GB
Free Space: 2.9GB, 100%

<< Hard Disk (F >>
< Benchmark Results >
This Drive: Drive Index: 17763
UDMA66 27GB: Drive Index: 13000
UDMA33 10GB: Drive Index: 8000
UDMA 6.4GB: Drive Index: 6500
EIDE 4GB: Drive Index: 3500

< Disk Status >
Multi-Processor Test: No
Test Uses Cache: Yes
Test File Size: 192MB
Current Disk Cache: 83MB
Maximum Disk Cache: 121MB
Minimum Disk Cache: 5MB
Typical Role: Desktop Computer

< Benchmark Breakdown >
Buffered Read: 393 MB/s
Sequential Read: 25 MB/s
Random Read: 9 MB/s
Buffered Write: 373 MB/s
Sequential Write: 13 MB/s
Random Write: 13 MB/s
Average Access Time: 4 ms (estimated)

< Drive >
Drive Class: Fixed
Drive Device: IBM-DTLA -307015
Total Space: 2.9GB
Free Space: 2.9GB, 100%

<< Hard Disk (G >>
< Benchmark Results >
This Drive: Drive Index: 15742
UDMA66 27GB: Drive Index: 13000
UDMA33 10GB: Drive Index: 8000
UDMA 6.4GB: Drive Index: 6500
EIDE 4GB: Drive Index: 3500

< Disk Status >
Multi-Processor Test: No
Test Uses Cache: Yes
Test File Size: 192MB
Current Disk Cache: 83MB
Maximum Disk Cache: 121MB
Minimum Disk Cache: 5MB
Typical Role: Desktop Computer

< Benchmark Breakdown >
Buffered Read: 294 MB/s
Sequential Read: 22 MB/s
Random Read: 8 MB/s
Buffered Write: 273 MB/s
Sequential Write: 12 MB/s
Random Write: 12 MB/s
Average Access Time: 5 ms (estimated)

< Drive >
Drive Class: Fixed
Drive Device: IBM-DTLA -307015
Total Space: 2.8GB
Free Space: 2.8GB, 100%

 

[pm]

Thanks, TommyC, that's extremely helpful. Consider me to be in your debt. I'll pass the information along to my friend.

 

[damocles]

Ordered mine, thanks from me too

 

[CQuinn]

Damocles, something to consider.

The newer ATA66 drives from Maxtor, IBM, Quantum, etc... are supposed
to be upgradeable to ATA100. So reviews like those at storagereview
might still be of value in determining the base performance of
drives in there respective model families.