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harddrive benchmarks? and how to get it up

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sambao21

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Mar 31, 2003
I have a maxtor 8mb cache 120gb DiamondMax Plus 9 and it's suppose to be a good performer, but when I run the File System benchmark in Sandra, it sucks really, bad, what's the deal? What settings are there for harddrives? Where do you change them and what are settings? There's so much info on CPU and RAM but nothing about HDs.
 
If your in Windows go to control panel, system, Hardware, device manager, IDE, ata/atpi controllers, pick the ide controller your hard drive is on and choose the DMA option or ultra DMA. You should have the same options in you bios.
 
I've heard many bad things about Sandra, one being that it scares people when it shouldn't. I wouldn't worry unless it's not performing well.
 
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