sata 2 enabled?

[sk8er]

Hi,
I have a
GIGABYTE GA-8I945P-G Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 945P ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
Western Digital Caviar SE WD2000JS 200GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

and am trying to figure out if SATA 2 is working? I have gone through the bios but there is no option which explicitly says that SATA 2 is enabled or what mode the hdd is running in? Was wondering if there is something I can do to find out? What S/W do you guys use for system monitoring? Any s tds out there?

Thanks.

 

[stevty2889]

Well I use HDtach to bench my hard drives, but cosidering that drives can't even fully utilize ATA100, let alone SATA or SATA II, you wouldn't even notice a differance. If the board has SATA II, and it's a SATA II drive, then you don't need to enable or disable anything. I get a burst rate of 160mb/s with my WD SATA II drive, since thats higher than SATA 150, I know it's working, but the sustained rate is still only around 50mb/s, so there wouldn't be much differance anyway.

 

[sk8er]

how do u figure the burst rate?

 

[tomt4535]

http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach

use that program, it will figure out all of the speeds on your hard drive for you.

 

[sk8er]

i got 165 while simulataneous dl'ing at 65Kb/s and playing some light video. However, i though the SATA 2 promise was 3.0Gb/s ?? what the hell happened to that ?

 

[stevty2889]

The SATA II bus is capable of 3gb/s...but there is no hard drive physicly capable of reaching those speeds, you have to remember that mechanicly, PATA, SATA, SATA II, the hard drives all have the same limitations, which is why you won't see any major differance in performance between the differant bus speeds.

 

[sk8er]

so would a scsi show any real improvement? btw how quiet are wd sata 2 hds ? or sata2s in general ?