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OnDborder
10-11-02, 04:45 PM
As you can see by my sig I have 2 Maxtor 80gig 7200 133 striped.
I feel that my hdd's aren't running at their best. In SiSoft, on drive c, my score was only 31766. In Atto, my scores leveled off at around 7150 at 32mb..

I d/l and installed the 2.32 hpt driver and am running the 4.42 via's. The drive is partitioned into 4 partitions..

What can I do to improve performance..
WyrmMaster
10-11-02, 06:44 PM
When was the last time you defraged the drive?

I recommend diskeeper lite, best free defrager iv found.
o770
10-11-02, 07:03 PM
other than the chipset drivers that will make sure that the ide controllers will work properly, there is nothing much left that would make such a big difference in performance.

you can improve disk processes under the OS by installing it in a small partition and keep it defragmented.
WyrmMaster
10-11-02, 09:14 PM
Also, make sure you are set to use DMA mode. What version of windows you using? On 2k / XP you can check it in the IDE controller properties in teh device manager.
OnDborder
10-12-02, 12:16 AM
I'll check the DMA..
But I'm running a raid 0..
Tracert
10-12-02, 01:57 PM
I have a friend with a Abit KT7a-Raid (Via KT133a) with the built in HPT. He set up a Raid 0 with two 7200 IBM drives and he only gets in about the 29000-30000. He asked me what the deal was and I couldn't answer him.

Thats about as good as what 1 drive can get. Does anyone know why the performance sucks with this setup? I figure they should be getting in the low 40000's at least, shouldn't they?
Albigger
10-12-02, 04:35 PM
Originally posted by Tracert
I have a friend with a Abit KT7a-Raid (Via KT133a) with the built in HPT. He set up a Raid 0 with two 7200 IBM drives and he only gets in about the 29000-30000. He asked me what the deal was and I couldn't answer him.

Thats about as good as what 1 drive can get. Does anyone know why the performance sucks with this setup? I figure they should be getting in the low 40000's at least, shouldn't they?

on my past setup on a kt7a raid i had 2x ibm 40 gigs that scored usually around 41k in sandra- though it is known to NOT be the best hard disk bench utility
khman002
10-12-02, 06:56 PM
sounds odd