36GB WD Raptor Performance

[celliott]

I have recently purchased a 36GB WD Raptor to give my pc a bit more performance over my old ide drive.

Previously, I had a Maxtor 6Y080L0, 80GB 7200RPM with 2MB Cache. Benching with HD Tach, I get a burst speed of 121mb/s

Now that I have the raptor installed I am getting the following:

91.8MB/s Burst
8.8Ms Random Access

The access time is a little bit better, but the speed isnt. Is this the correct performance from a single raptor? This is connected via the Promise SATA controller on my Asus A8V Delxe Rev2.

Thanks

 

[celliott]

Do you mean with the Via controller? I wanted to do this originally but could not find where to get the drivers from, I could only see drivers for the promise controller.

There seems to be a slight improvement over my old drive but I got this drive cheap (£40) so I guess it wasnt a complete loss.