HDD tach, low scores?

[TimDgsr]

i've been thinking my ibm hdd was slow for a while now, ever since i took my windows xp partitions off with a win98se cd.

i have no clue what good scores are, but i know this can't be a good score judging by how high the numbers go up to.

Random Access Time - 8.3ms

Read Burst Speed - 4.5mbps

any help is greatly appreciated. if someone could please confirm that this is ridiculously low, i'll be trying partition magic to see if i can fix it, if not i'll be ordering a new drive and trying to RMA this one.

thanks

 

[Yodums]

Do the IBM Diagnostic Test. If it fails your reason is approved to RMA the drive.

IT does seem some what bad though.

 

[Johan]

The access time is fine (faster than my IBM HDDs) but the read burst speed seems way low (I get around 38000kps or 38mbps as an average).

 

[TimDgsr]

ya, 4 seemed really low to me.

i just ran the drive fitness test from IBM, said i had no errors.

maybe i should try updating my bios?

every time i try to load any via4in1 drivers my agp ends up going to crap and i have to reload my registry. I'm clueless as to my problem.

 

[TimDgsr]

DOH!

hehe i've only turned on that comp twice since i re-installed my OS, seems i forgot to turn DMA on

well i'm getting 41mbps peak and like 39mbps average.


there goes my "bad hard drive" theory, now i need to find out why my freakin 3d benches are so weak.