15 MB/s SANDRA??

cmitchellfly · Dec 30, 2004

Is my Maxtor 120 dying? I ran sandra and it scores 15 MB/s

. The identicle drive on a friends pc gets 51 MB/s. Is it time to replace it?

I ran sandra right after a fresh install of win xp/sp2 and all my applications.

Know Nuttin · Dec 30, 2004

is your drive in PIO mode or DMA mode?

cmitchellfly · Dec 30, 2004

Well I fixed it! Not sure exactly what was causing it. I cleared the cmos and reset the ide cable and power cable to my main hdd, rebooted and vavoom - good to go. Sandra gave me a 51 MB/s score.

ppj13 · Jan 21, 2005

Mine is getting 8.5gb/s. I tryed swapping cables, no luck. Any other ideas?

Prodigious · Jan 21, 2005

8.5 GIGABITS per second?! I envy you...

Xaotic · Jan 21, 2005

Welcome to the Forums!

While Sandra is not greatly accurate, it's not usually that bad. Have you checked the device mode in Device Manager? Start > right click My Computer > Manage > Device Manager assuming XP and standard menus. Once there select the ATAPI/ATA controllers and look at the mode under Advanced Settings. It should be in DMA mode.

Foxie3a · Jan 22, 2005

It can also be something dumb like a really badly fragged drive.

You guys are getting more than my Raptor..Mine gets 45mb/s read. I wish I could trade my write speeds with my read. Sandra shows over 80mb/s write. lol

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