What transfer rate #'s should I be seeing with a Maxtor 7200rpm ata66 Hd....?

[Cybordolphin]

I am going to benchmark my harddrive and see what the transfer rates come in at....

Anyone know what is acceptable for an ata66 IDE Maxtor Diamondmax 20 gigger 7200rpm?

Just curious.

Thanks.

 

[Cybordolphin]

Woah...

Sad! Only getting around 4,000 and mid 90's on CPU usage!! What's up with that?
This on a Pent III 800(eb) Intel MB (815e)... time to tweak!

 

[Nih]

Try setting DMA in device manager, under disk drives,, You should see that cpu utilization go down to 5-10%

 

[chuckieland]

what software are you using in benchmark

 

[Cybordolphin]

Using Hardinfo Pro.

 

[Moonbeam]

Threadmark 2.0 win 95 9.99

 

[jsbush]

Where do you get all this programs?

Your CPU usage shouldn't be 90% that's WAY to high.

 

[Cybordolphin]

Grabbed it off of ZDNET.

It had lots of downloads, and good review ranking. It seems like a very good piece of software. I am open to trying different software.

I am going to need to find a way to make some tweaks it appears.
I am running windows98 on this system. I ran the benchmark a second time while on the net (just for fun).... and the transfer rates went down to 3482, and the CPU still at 90's percent useage.

Any ideas?

Just changed the device driver to DMA as mentioned. Will reboot and retest.

 

[Cybordolphin]

Lmao...

Ok.. now I am getting 20,000 - 21,000 transfer, and CPU use is down to 6%-7%. Why the heck don't hard drive companies include a small lil note to make sure that we do that with a new drive..? Guess we are all supposed to know to check the DMA in Device Manager..lol

Thanks!

Any other tidbits of info on increasing the performance? What about those buffer/cache software
programs out there.... that claim to speed up drive performance?

 

[ArchAngel777]

Uhh... your a golden member and did not check the DMA setting? OMG... I think it is time to leave this board... for a more technical one. It's not like I think you are a stupid person because of that... but anyone who knows anything about computers SHOULD know that. However maybe you just post in the games section or something.

 

[Madcowz]

No I think he should just take a look at my tweak guide

Check my sig

 

[Cybordolphin]

Actually I have built quite a few computers, and overclock them all. I guess even us ol timers don't get around to everything. I wish I could sit here and tell you I know everything. Not gonna happen. I also learned to not be too proud to ask questions.

Now respect your elders son.

 

[paruhd0x]

Wow I have 3 UDMA 66 Hardrives and on Win2k it says they are SCSI in device manager... hmm odd!!

 

[AMB]

Around 20,000 in SiSoft's benchmark