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Improving Performance

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Corey0808

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I just recently purchased a Western Digital 74Gb Raptor. The rest of my system is in my signature. I was running SiSoft Sandra file system Benchmark test and I got a drive index of 50Mb/sec and my access time was an average of 13.5 ms. That is nothing close to the reviews it has been getting. What can I do to improve the performance of my HarddisK? It's defragged on a regular basis.

Thanks
 
only recommendation here is to go to a gig of ram...prolly won't help ur performance HD Tach wise though
 
First, make sure the HDD is as single master (and re-benchmark) perhaps another drive in the channel is decresing performance.
Next, check and enable DMA mode found in System properties-->hardware--->Ide controllers (not sure)
at the time of benchmarking your system make sure you don't have another process running in the background....like antivirus, and many others.
 
It's running on it's own channel, SATA Port 1. I was curious is there any way I can change the transfer mode? I've tried in the controller section but I can't find it. It's currently on UDMA Mode 6. But I've heard that UDMA Mode 5 is better and will yield better performance but I can't figure out how to change it. Thanks for all the help everyone
 
I think so but I'm not sure. Could you please link me to the driver and BIOS page please? It would really appreciate it 🙂
 
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There's probably a newer SI driver available from windows update.

To adjust DMA mode install the SI RAID Utility that should be on the mainboard CD and use the GUI.
 
How does the drive feel, does it feel responsive? SiSoft Sandra... :roll: 'nuf said.
 
One thing you might try is making sure that PCI slots 1 & 5 are empty since they share their IRQ line with the SI controller and with eachother on the NF7-S, by the way.
 
I can't because I have a wireless PCI card in one and my soundcard in another. I'm going to try and install the SI utility tonight. It feels kind of responsive.. I mean I know it's faster than my old drive but I think it would feel faster than it is. Maybe it needs break in time 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Corey0808
I can't because I have a wireless PCI card in one and my soundcard in another. I'm going to try and install the SI utility tonight. It feels kind of responsive.. I mean I know it's faster than my old drive but I think it would feel faster than it is. Maybe it needs break in time 🙂
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You could pull those PCI cards out long enough to do a benchmark, though 🙂
 
It seems like it takes windows forever to start up. It started up better on my old slow harddrive. When the screen pops up with the bar that is still quick but the part after that is says windows is starting up, that part takes forever. Sooo much longer than my previous Harddrive
 
I ran a test with HDtach with all programs turned off. How does this look? Anybody have anything on my start up issues?

Results

Burst Speed 114.4 MB/sec
Random Access Time: 7.8 ms
CPU Utilization: 4%
Average Read: 58.0 MB/sec
 
The HD Tach results look about on-target for what the drive is. I can tell you that my 15000rpm SCSI drives are not the fastest booter-upers either, as far as Windows goes, and I think that's just the result of having a "non-native" disk controller (PCI-based). The slower boot-up aspect doesn't bother me, my work and home systems both run 24/7 most of the time anyway.
 
The scores from HD tach look okay beside the avg Read which is a little slow. Mine gets 65MB/s pretty consistantly. I would go over to the NForcersHQ and look and see if there are any newer SATA Bios's for that board. I run 10.0.47 which is the latest that I know of and I run the 10.0.50 drivers which also seem to be the latest. GL im sure someone over there can help you. Check out the Abit forum and the drivers forum esspecially.
 
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