IBM75GXP performing badly, need help

[Kharn]

hi,
I recently bought a 15gb IBM 75GXP, and an ABIT Hot Rod 100 Pro (ATA/100 RAID controller) for my system.
im not running it in RAID mode at the moment BTW.
I've heard in a lot of places this is one of the fastest (IDE) hard disks on the market, yet the performance I am receiving is pretty poor.
I ran SiSoft Sandra Pro's disk benchmarker to prove my point, heres the results...
Drive Index - 8665
Buffered Read - 259MB/s
Sequential Read - 10MB/s
Random Read - 1153kB/s
Buffered Write - 287MB/s
Sequential Write - 20MB/s
Random Write - 8MB/s
Average Access Time - 50ms (ack!!)

I've got my the 75GXP set at UDMA5 in the controller bios, ive made sure that the hard drive actaully IS a 75GXP (checked all model numbers) and that the controller is ATA100.

any help with this would be appreicated
oh yeah, the rest of my system is as follows:
MSI 6163PRO (its BX)
P3 733-EB
128mb 133 ram
Xitel Storm platinum (thats a Vortex 2)
Acer NetCard PCI Fast Ethernet (can go 10mbps as well obviously)

 

[StanTheMan]

I guess sisoft sandra do not analysed ur comp correctly ;P. btw, how do u feel about the performance PERSONALLY? is it better or worse compared to ur previous hd?

 

[Varmot]

Had a similar problem benching my IBM hard drives. The only program that will give you a good benchmark is HD Tach. hd tach 261

 

[Kharn]

yes, im happy with the performance, just curious as to why sandra is giving me such a low score
yes i tried HDtach it gave me pretty good results, random access time was around 10ms
anyone know how to enable DMA for a HotRod (if your wondering, windows thinks it is a SCSI adaptor, which it is supposed to apparently)?
because of windows thinking its SCSI theres no DMA option

 

[Jonny]

Shoot, I was going to do some HD Tach benchmarks but all I run is Windows 2000, and you have to pay for the nt version.

I have the same drive as you, just the 45gb version. Iam very very happy with its performance too.

 

[Kulgan]

Your low performance might be due to the Highpoint controller. I know the U/66 highpoints sucked, not really sure how good the 100 version is

 

[peemo]

Kulgan,

What do you mean HighPoint/66 sucks? Did you just hear that rumour somewhere?

My last recorded HDTach scores using my IBM 20.5GB 7200 (IBM-DPTA-372050 P760) + HighPoint ATA66/bios 1.23:
Random Access Time = 10.8ms
Read Burst Speed = 53.8mbps
Read Speed: max 23673kps, min 21081kps, avg 22331.9kps
CPU Utilization: 12%

Haven't updated these since flashing the bios up to HighPoint v1.25.
What are you using? Let's see some benchmarks.

 

[br0wn]

have you tried different IDE cable ?
I had same problem with my IBM 75GXP before,
then I switched to another IDE cable (make sure
it supports ATA100 or ATA66 at least), the problem
disappeared.

Oh you also want to defrag your hd also, sandra
scores increase dramatically after you defrag your hd.

 

[Insane3D]

I have the Highpoint 390 on my KA7-100. It works very well with my IBM 75GXP's. I have two running in Raid 0 right now. I get a score of 26800 in Sandra without raid in ATA/100. I get 44700 with them in RAID.

 

[divide by zero]

Kharn,

Do you have a CD-ROM or DVD on the same IDE cable?
Using SiSandra 2000 I'm getting 24000 non-RAID,
40000 using RAID with the ATA/100 Highpoint controller
on the Abit KA7-100.

 

[bonkers325]

hgihpioint drivers is suck

 

[Prodigy^]

I've got a 75GXP and a highpoint ATA66 controller, no problems.....very fast, get high sandra scores....

but....it all comes down to what you feel personally, as Stan says...if it's smooth to you, then nevermind a stupid benchmarking program. Sisoft sandra is well-known for measuring almost everything incorrectly