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I used Sandra 2002 to test the performance of my ATA 66 hard drive. I got a drive index of 6000. One of Sandra's reference drives which is very similar to mine got a drive index of 17000. :Q
The drive is recognized and enabled by the BIOS as UDMA 4. Windows 2000 says my drive is using Ultra DMA but it doesn't say which mode.
Could this discrepancy in performance be due to fragmentation? If so, what's a good defrag program? I tried using the windows defragmenter but when I analyze my drive after the defragmentation, it still shows up just as fragmented as before.
Perhaps there's a VIA tweak I'm missing?
Thanks.
The drive is recognized and enabled by the BIOS as UDMA 4. Windows 2000 says my drive is using Ultra DMA but it doesn't say which mode.
Could this discrepancy in performance be due to fragmentation? If so, what's a good defrag program? I tried using the windows defragmenter but when I analyze my drive after the defragmentation, it still shows up just as fragmented as before.
Perhaps there's a VIA tweak I'm missing?
Thanks.