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HDD Read/Write Speed help.

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Crimzon

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I bought the Dell 4550, and I used the Acoustic Management Utility to turn the Acoustic Management off. The Primary IDE is set to "DMA if Possible" and says "Ultra DMA Mode 5".

The problem is this: Whenever I run SiSandra soft, and do a benchmark, I'll get some horribly low number like 15,000KB/S. So I check the other set benchmarks for ATA100 40ish gig, 2 mb Cache, 7200rpm hdd's, and they'll be at *least* 24,000KB/S. So just outta curiosity, I pulled up a ATA66 drive, same rough specs, and I got 15,000KB/S.

Anyone tell me what's up? Why is my HDD so damn slow? It's supposed to be faster than this, ATA133 I think. Other system specs are: P4 2.4 533, 128 PC2700, 40 gig hdd 7200rpm [6L040J2], WindowsXP, and I turned Acoustic Sound Management off with a utility found on Maxtor's website.

Thanks.
 
I've seen Windowsupdate.microsoft.com off a "Dell System Driver" update. I assume this may be some type of driver to allows the features of your system to be recognized as something other than generic comopoents (for example - instead of your IDE controller being treated as generic it might recognize that it's an Intel xxx whatever, not unlike the Via 4-in-1 drivers.

I'd recommend going to Windowsudpate.microsoft.com and seeing if they offer any driver updates for your system.

I have a ton of Dells at work, and while I never benched any of them, their hard drive access has always felt kind of slow to me. Might just be Dell being conservative with settings somewhere like in the BIOS or something ...
 
Hmm, thanks for the suggestion. I checked the site out, and the autofind didn't find anything, so when I typed in "Dell" or "Dell System Driver" or "Dell HDD" I didn't see anything that would help... I think. Only found some Nvidia video drivers, heheh. If you happen to run across a link to what you're talking about, let me know. Thanks.

[edit: I just looked at the name of the controller, and it already has the model "Intel(R) 82801DB Ultra ATA Controller - 24CB." I guess my system didn't have that problem, or it got updated somwhere along the line.]
 
Well, looked in the bios, and I'd set the Acoustic Management to Bypass, I switched it to performance, and it had no difference as well...
 
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