Why is my Hard Drive so fast?

[deadlock]

Hey guys,

I just built a PC a couple of weeks ago, and have since messed around with it. Relevant specs are as follows:

MSI K7T Pro 2
Duron 700@700
Seagate 20.4GB 7200rpm U/ATA66
128 MB PC133 cheap RAM

I've run a few benchmarks on my drive, and for some strange reason, my hard drive (in the chart comparisons) is much faster than it's supposed to be (i.e. the typical speed of a drive like mine). In 2 cases, the programs even listed my drive as being equal to that of an Ultra Wide SCSI drive.

I haven't run any mega drive benchmarking programs, but the few small time bundled drive benchmarks that I have run all list my drive as being really fast. The same programs return correct benchmark results for my CPU and everything else, but my drive is a Ferrari for some reason. It can read and write at over 30MBs/sec, according to the program.

Any ideas?

 

[Argo]

Any ideas? Shut up and be happy, before it goes back into its normal mode

 

[tigger80]

umm mine is faster than yours actually hahahaha

 

[XeonTux]

Ya know, most people complain their drives are too slow....

 

[Sir Fredrick]

It's probably a current generation drive, benchmark data in those tests is based on previous generations. high transfer speeds are nice, but I doubt it has the seek times of most SCSI drives

 

[Losty]

if you don't like it i'll trade you for a 5400...hehe

 

[S0me1X]

perhaps some of the benchmarks you are running are outdated..

 

[Noriaki]

An IBM 75GXP has an STR of about 37MB/s on the faster tracks.

30MB/s is a reasonable speed for a current generation 7200rpm ATA drive.

Besides...STR means very little, Seek times are far more important, and that's where those massive SCSI drives rip an ATA drive to shreds