Single SATA drive peformance BAD on Asus P4P800/P4C800 mobos?!..

[Dance123]

Hi,

In following review about P4P800 here http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NDg0LDM= they mention in the "IDE/ATA Performance" section: "The SATA single drive performance is the worst of the bunch, trailing the IDE drive results by approximately 10 MB/s on both the average read and write performance." They mention that they tested both single IDE and SATA drives.

Does that mean that if you intend to only use 1 SATA harddisk (which I was going to do), this board isn't for me? And I thought SATA was better then IDE, esp. since on the P4P800 (Deluxe) SATA is integrated into the Southbridge which is supposed to give the best results. I don't understand why a single SATA drive scores worse then single IDE?!

Oh, and is this the same on the Asus P4C800, otherwise I would chose this board then.

Thanks in advance for all good feedback!

Mike.

 

[jaeger66]

That review sucks. You can't use HDTach to bench RAID at all. It doesn't measure correctly. The single drive performance might be due to the fact that it's a PATA drive, or it could be just a review error. He did RAID 0 on the same cable for crying out loud.

 

[Dance123]

But i it still correct that single SATA (so I am NOT talking about RAID) will perform worse then single IDE?!

They say: "The SATA single drive performance is the worst of the bunch, trailing the IDE drive results by approximately 10 MB/s on both the average read and write performance."

Does this mean if I only gonna use 1 harddisk with this mobo, I better take an IDE harddisk instead of a SATA harddisk?! I can't undertand why single SATA is so bad on this mobo, since SATA is integrated to the Southbridge on the P4P800 which should give good results, RAID or no RAID?! That's what I don't understand?!

 

[jaeger66]

Please note that the SATA and PATA drives are different in this review. The results from a single Barracuda V on the ICH5R are exactly what you would expect. I have no idea why he needed to point out the slower transfer rate on the ICH5R when he was benching two different drives, the Cuda V being a slower drive than the Maxtor.

 

[Dance123]

So you mean that a single Maxtor SATA disk would get better results then the single Barracuda V drive. Actually I intended to buy a single Maxtor SATA drive, so do you think I should be able to get 60MB/s data transfer rate with that drive on this mobo. 60MB/s is what most drives 7200rpm drives get on the P4PE mobo I believe, but I thought with native SATA (which P4P800 supports) it should even be HIGHER then that (up to 150MB/s).

Are there any tests of where single SATA harddisks other then the Barracuda V are being tested with the Asus P4P800 mobos. Also, and isn't it so that SATA performance is even worse on the P4C800 because it uses a Promise controller I believe (not native SATA)?!

Oh, anybody here who already has the P4P800 using a single SATA drive (so no RAID). Which are your data transfer results?

 

[jaeger66]

Originally posted by: Dance123
So you mean that a single Maxtor SATA disk would get better results then the single Barracuda V drive.

Yes.

Actually I intended to buy a single Maxtor SATA drive, so do you think I should be able to get 60MB/s data transfer rate with that drive on this mobo.

Yes.

60MB/s is what most drives 7200rpm drives get on the P4PE mobo I believe, but I thought with native SATA (which P4P800 supports) it should even be HIGHER then that (up to 150MB/s).

The drive's speed is the drive's speed. Putting it on a faster controller isn't going to make it faster.

Also, and isn't it so that SATA performance is even worse on the P4C800 because it uses a Promise controller I believe (not native SATA)?!

It has both.

 

[gramboh]

I have a single Raptor on a P4P800 non deluxe. What program can I use to test? I have the super old HDTach win98 version but I doubt it's giving accurate results (if I remember, read only, start 78meg/s, end 17meg/s average 48.5meg/s).