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Benchmarked 20GB 7200RPM Maxtor and it SUX!

umm I think I'll take the storagereview's word over yours. I'm sure their results were much more accurate. As Pauli suggested, you may want to check if DMA is enabled. Additionally check your bios to see if it's configured with UDMA-4 and PIO4 (or is it 5?). Are you using the drive on a ATA100 controller? Are you using the correct cables (ATA100)?
 
Remember all these people getting 30~40K are benchmarking with windows CACHE ENABLED! Still, your drive should be higher than that.

What Diamond Max Plus model is your drive?

Also this is VERY VERY important!

Maxtor has write verify enabled on these drives! You MUST either download the utility to turn it off OR cycle the power to the drive about ten times.

Cheers!
 
Wow I'm an idiot. As I check my IDE setup I find out my old azz 16.8GB 5200RPM IBM drive is what I benched! Ahh man... is there ANY way of transfering EVERYTHING over to my other hardrive so I don't have to format and reinstall my OS to get on my faster hardrive? 🙁 Man am I bummed.
 
I found SiSoft Sandra's HDD benchmark to be highly incorrect, you better find some more realistic bench. program if you want to make any conclusions 🙂
 
Use Maxtor's Max Blast software to transfer everything on your old HD to the new one. I just used it on my new 30gig. It's simple but takes a long time if you have a lot of files to image. It can also format your old drive afterwards. Max Blast was probably included on a floppy with your new harddrive or you can find it at their site.
 
You could use XXCOPY , and its CLONE command to do a drive copy 🙂

Down Load XXCOPY.zip here


XXCOPY System Disk Cloning Command:

. connect the new drive as D:
. FDISK (initialize a partition)
. FORMAT D: (init volume for file access)
. XXCOPY C:\ D:\ /CLONE (copy all the files)
. connect the new drive as C:
. FDISK (set active partition)



 
Easier way to copy things over would be to download Norton Ghost 6.5 evaluation. Full version, but with a 15 day expiration. So, you have to make the image and ghost it over within 15 days. Also, doing this will nuke everything on the destination drive.

I've read about big problems with Xcopy in that it doesn't handle long file names correctly. Some times it does, some times it doesn't - bottom line is that it isn't reliable at all and you don't want to learn about it 2 days later when you've deleted stuff off your old drive.

Main thing to remember, use fdisk to set the new drive to active when you put it in place to boot from.

-Jason
 
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