The problem is simple: my hard drive runs slow as hell. I have run many benchmarks, and since the buffered read hits close to 80 MB/s I'm fairly certain it isnt an IDE bus issue.
SEEK TIMES are where the drive is crappy - Sisoft Sandra shows average seek times from 30-50 ms, and the more reliable HD tach shows average seek time of 21 ms. This drive is rated by maxtor to be 8.9ms average.
I know benchmarks aren't everything, but I'm not just complaining that I don't get good benchmark scores -- I went to the benchmarks BECAUSE I was noticing crappy performance, and they back up my original observations.
Important info:
Maxtor 30GB 7200RPM ATA100 (Diamondmax Plus 40)
EpoX 8KHA+
Athlon XP 1700+
256mb PC2100 DDR
running on WinXP (NTFS partition)
Questions I'll answer before they are asked:
yes, im using an ata/100 cable
yes, im using newest 4-in-1 drivers
yes, ive used many different versions of the 4-in-1's
yes, the drive is on a cable by itself
yes, DMA is enabled in bios and windows (using ata100)
I know I must have left some info out, just let me know. ANY help with this problem would be greatly appreciated. TIA
SEEK TIMES are where the drive is crappy - Sisoft Sandra shows average seek times from 30-50 ms, and the more reliable HD tach shows average seek time of 21 ms. This drive is rated by maxtor to be 8.9ms average.
I know benchmarks aren't everything, but I'm not just complaining that I don't get good benchmark scores -- I went to the benchmarks BECAUSE I was noticing crappy performance, and they back up my original observations.
Important info:
Maxtor 30GB 7200RPM ATA100 (Diamondmax Plus 40)
EpoX 8KHA+
Athlon XP 1700+
256mb PC2100 DDR
running on WinXP (NTFS partition)
Questions I'll answer before they are asked:
yes, im using an ata/100 cable
yes, im using newest 4-in-1 drivers
yes, ive used many different versions of the 4-in-1's
yes, the drive is on a cable by itself
yes, DMA is enabled in bios and windows (using ata100)
I know I must have left some info out, just let me know. ANY help with this problem would be greatly appreciated. TIA
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