Yep im on sata 2 also. In fact I just traced the sata cable and its in the marvel controller (its a real mess round back) set to sata 2 limit, so I'm going to test it again in one of the intel ones, il post a screenshot if its any diff.
Got my Seagate 2TB
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Yep im on sata 2 also. In fact I just traced the sata cable and its in the marvel controller (its a real mess round back) set to sata 2 limit, so I'm going to test it again in one of the intel ones, il post a screenshot if its any diff.
eddyr., I just found something out. "One thing worth noting - HDTune free only tests the first 1TB of a drive, so the access times appear lower than they actually are. (Notice the yellow dots only test the first half of the drive.)"
Can you retest using the free trial of HD Tune Pro, and not HD Tune.
http://www.hdtune.com/download.html
Here's my HD Tune Pro benchmark (Seagate to the right, Caviar Black 1TB to the left). The yellow dots now fill across the whole box. The burst rate is much higher but the access time is slower. Also, cpu usage is higher with this version of HD Tune.
merlin5 said:
Done. HDtune Pro testing the whole drive shows that as I had it setup before (on the same marvel port) wasnt giving the full story, so as you say the HD tune free version I was using before was affecting the result.
Moved it to the intel sata 2 port and HDtune Pro shows better results than than the marvel port accross the board. Anywho the benches...
3 Platter 2 TB Seagate ST2000DM001 50% full
Left-marvel controller sata 2 HD tune pro
Middle & right- Intel sata 2 HD tune pro
Taking the relevant mid and right 2 benches, it's not much slower than your 2 platter.
edit: infact my burst rate is a bit better.
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Thanks for doing that eddy. Yep, very interesting. So really, it seems it makes hardly any difference which version someone gets. Bit disappointing in some respects, doesn't say much for the newer single platter technology.