How To Increase to SATA I/II Transfer Speed in Windows Vista...

[GDoes]

I just installed Windows Vista on my computer with the following specs:

Intel DG33TL motherboard

Seagate ST31000340AS

Both support SATA II transfer speed, however the transfer speeds shows up as ATA/133 instead:

ATA/133 Transfer Speed

I downloaded all the latest drivers from Intel, but still no cigar:

Intel® I/O Controller Hub 9 (ICH9)

Does anyone know how I can increase the transfer speed to either SATA I or SATA II?

Thanks,
-Glenn

 

[PurdueRy]

You probably have the SATA ports set to IDE mode in the BIOS. But don't even bother messing with it. You won't exceed ATA-133 speeds anyway(Sata is no faster than IDE due to the hard drive bottleneck)

 

[Zepper]

Check to see if you have the jumper on the drive set to SATA 300.

.bh.

 

[tyler811]

Sorry goofed

 

[Zepper]

There are on most SATA 2 drives to choose between 300 and 150 interface speed for those older controllers that don't handshake (like my mobo's integrated controller)... AFAIK, only recent Hitachi SATA 2 drives (my 7k160 and newer) lack the jumper pins (most SATA 2 drives are defaulted to 300 speed and require a jumper on the pins to be locked to 150) and that causes some owners no end of grief as I RMAd a perfectly good drive because the new Hitachis "play dead" if not connected to a controller that can negotiate - dang things don't even spin up.

Check at this link: Seagate Installation Troubleshooter under "Jumpers & Cabling"...

Elites know these things. (sometimes anyway...)

.bh.

 

[Zepper]

Hey tyler,

One shouldn't edit one's posts so it appears that something (perhaps embarrassing) didn't exist. That's something Republicrats and communists like to do... Other forums don't allow posts to be edited (or edit for just 5 minutes) for that very reason.

.bh.

 

[Peter]

SATA drives always report some (fake) UDMA mode in their 'IDENTIFY' command data. This is for backwards compatibility, and nothing to do with the actual physical interface speed of the SATA link.

You don't even have a problem there - and even if the drive were actually running UDMA mode 6, it would make no difference whatsoever to its performance. Even the best drive media are still too slow to max out UDMA6 (133 MB/s), let alone SATA-I (150), and a far far cry from the 300 MB/s mode in SATA-II. The fastest drive currently is Samsung's F1 series, and even those aren't any faster than 110 MB/s, ever.