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Old July 26th 08, 05:41 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte
Andrea[_4_]
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Hi,
I have a question about a new GA-EP35C-DS3R and an HD Western Digital
velociraptor 300 GB...
I have another hard disk Maxtor DiamondMax 22 500 Gb, but I do not
understand because it is faster than the Velociraptor

I don't know where I have to connect Sata cable.... in SATA II channel 0
master or in GSATA II channel 0 master

I have just try but Maxtor is fastern to load windows xp

What can I do ?



Thank you
Andrea


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Old July 26th 08, 07:48 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte
Paul
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Andrea wrote:
Hi,
I have a question about a new GA-EP35C-DS3R and an HD Western Digital
velociraptor 300 GB...
I have another hard disk Maxtor DiamondMax 22 500 Gb, but I do not
understand because it is faster than the Velociraptor

I don't know where I have to connect Sata cable.... in SATA II channel 0
master or in GSATA II channel 0 master

I have just try but Maxtor is fastern to load windows xp

What can I do ?



Thank you
Andrea



Have you tried something like the HDTune benchmark ?

http://www.hdtune.com/

According to the Storagereview benchmark charts, Velociraptor is
119MB/sec at the beginning of the disk, and 81.7MB/sec at the
end of the disk. The curve should also be reasonably "flat"
and not jerky. Jerkiness is sometimes caused by bad sectors.
(My current drive has some jerkiness when I run HDTune now.)

The initial release of the Velociraptor, had bad firmware. WD
promised to fix it, before the product shipped, so you should
have the firmware with a smoother response curve in the
benchmark.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/699/5/

This one is not bad looking.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/sto...iraptor_4.html

So what does yours look like ? Also examine the "dots"
which represent access time, and compare the trends seen
in the charts above.

Where a Velociraptor should really pay off, is in access time.
For example, if you were running a search command, which causes
the heads to be thrown around on the disk, the Raptor should finish
significantly faster, for the same number of files searched.

Actually, I did just find a chart of boot times, and the
Velociraptor is in the middle of the pack. So indeed, it
doesn't boot that fast. But it will do some other things
faster.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14583/6

Paul
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Old July 27th 08, 10:34 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte
Andrea[_4_]
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Default Question about GA-EP35C-DS3R

Thank's Paul for your help

Today I have do other tests.... the result is that the Velociraptor is
equals for load windows but is 2 times faster in file transfer
The firmware is the last release.

Sorry for my bad english

Thank you
Andrea


"Paul" ha scritto nel messaggio
...
Andrea wrote:
Hi,
I have a question about a new GA-EP35C-DS3R and an HD Western Digital
velociraptor 300 GB...
I have another hard disk Maxtor DiamondMax 22 500 Gb, but I do not
understand because it is faster than the Velociraptor

I don't know where I have to connect Sata cable.... in SATA II channel 0
master or in GSATA II channel 0 master

I have just try but Maxtor is fastern to load windows xp

What can I do ?



Thank you
Andrea


Have you tried something like the HDTune benchmark ?

http://www.hdtune.com/

According to the Storagereview benchmark charts, Velociraptor is
119MB/sec at the beginning of the disk, and 81.7MB/sec at the
end of the disk. The curve should also be reasonably "flat"
and not jerky. Jerkiness is sometimes caused by bad sectors.
(My current drive has some jerkiness when I run HDTune now.)

The initial release of the Velociraptor, had bad firmware. WD
promised to fix it, before the product shipped, so you should
have the firmware with a smoother response curve in the
benchmark.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/699/5/

This one is not bad looking.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/sto...iraptor_4.html

So what does yours look like ? Also examine the "dots"
which represent access time, and compare the trends seen
in the charts above.

Where a Velociraptor should really pay off, is in access time.
For example, if you were running a search command, which causes
the heads to be thrown around on the disk, the Raptor should finish
significantly faster, for the same number of files searched.

Actually, I did just find a chart of boot times, and the
Velociraptor is in the middle of the pack. So indeed, it
doesn't boot that fast. But it will do some other things
faster.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14583/6

Paul



 




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