I ran HD Tach 2.61 on my hdds just so I could find out which of my hdds are the fastest and was kinda astonished when I saw the results.
Note that I have a fair few hdds in my system.. 4 on my onboard raid controller (Highpoint) 1 on my main IDE ports (the others being used for burner/dvdrom) and 1 u160 (Adaptec 19160 Controller)
How the hell can my spanky u160 Drive give such a crap result compared to a bog standard IDE Drive? It is running as the system drive tho and you can clrearly see the spikes when it was accessed during the benchmark but check the CPU % and Average read rate ? wtf!
http://www.neorox.co.uk/img/hdtach/ibm-120gxp-40gb.gif
http://www.neorox.co.uk/img/hdtach/ibm-180gxp-115gb.gif
http://www.neorox.co.uk/img/hdtach/maxtor-dx740-80gb.gif
http://www.neorox.co.uk/img/hdtach/seagate-st38021-80gb.gif
now for the scsi drive....
http://www.neorox.co.uk/img/hdtach/ibm-ddys-t18350n-u160-scsi-18gb.gif
I have had a play with the scsi card bios options and the scsi tab options in XP but the results remained the same, even running it with all unneeded processes closed still didnt help
If any of you have a similar setup and can help me increase performance then plz reply!
:grinthumb
Note that I have a fair few hdds in my system.. 4 on my onboard raid controller (Highpoint) 1 on my main IDE ports (the others being used for burner/dvdrom) and 1 u160 (Adaptec 19160 Controller)
How the hell can my spanky u160 Drive give such a crap result compared to a bog standard IDE Drive? It is running as the system drive tho and you can clrearly see the spikes when it was accessed during the benchmark but check the CPU % and Average read rate ? wtf!
http://www.neorox.co.uk/img/hdtach/ibm-120gxp-40gb.gif
http://www.neorox.co.uk/img/hdtach/ibm-180gxp-115gb.gif
http://www.neorox.co.uk/img/hdtach/maxtor-dx740-80gb.gif
http://www.neorox.co.uk/img/hdtach/seagate-st38021-80gb.gif
now for the scsi drive....
http://www.neorox.co.uk/img/hdtach/ibm-ddys-t18350n-u160-scsi-18gb.gif
I have had a play with the scsi card bios options and the scsi tab options in XP but the results remained the same, even running it with all unneeded processes closed still didnt help
If any of you have a similar setup and can help me increase performance then plz reply!
:grinthumb