Gigabyte 965P DS3 - poor HDD performance?

Raumarik · 16 May 2007 at 13:22

Hi peeps,

Got my new shiny gear last week from OCUK and overall I've been delighted but I'm convinced that SATA performance is miles lower than it should be even on XP x64.

Using a Gigabyte 965P DS3 and only the gigabyte ports (not the Intel ones) but performance seems really poor, extracted a 600Mb zip, just one file and it took almost 8 mins to copy it from one drive to another. That was with my AV disabled at the time to hopefully speed it along.

I'm not sure of the revision (will check later) but it's probably the latest one as it's only recently been purchased.

All drivers updated, no little exclamation marks in device manager..

Any suggestions? Change ports? change drive order so the boot one is on a certain sata port?

I think the drives are fine as they're both fairly new too.

Rangler · 16 May 2007 at 13:47

DS3 HD Performance.

I too have experienced this.
I originally set up 2 x 120GB SATAII drives in striped raid and the performance was bloody awful.
So much so that i rebuilt my pc from scratch and put them on the intel ports and partitioned accordingly.

I was using the latest JMICRON drivers but still had issues.

Raumarik · 16 May 2007 at 14:05

I might try shifting them to the intel ports, there's a few posts around about how to do this so i'll give it a shot!

Initially I wasn't sure if it was just my imagination but over the past could have days I've tried moving large files to test it and the performance it plain awful compared to my old IDE athlon XP 1900 setup!

Raumarik · 16 May 2007 at 18:07

Moved them onto the intel ports, seemed to speed it up a bit but I think the main culprit is my AV software, going to look at alternatives¬!

Jumblemo · 16 May 2007 at 20:01

I'm looking at this board too (DS3P) - what brand of AV software is causing the problem?

Rangler · 16 May 2007 at 21:19

Its not an AV issue.

Hate to say it but i really dont think its an AV issue.
Ive tried it with 3 fresh OS installs same drivers OS SP and update levels
1st no AV
2nd Sophos
3rd Kaspersky based AV
Each time i got same results.

Anyone else find that if you run a HDTACJ test with HD's on the Gbyte ports that it BSOD's the OS.?

I really dont like the JMICRON drivers, if i have my 2 sata2 disks on the gbyte ports i find that i have issues with IDE cdroms unless i use the MS drivers.

This is a fantastic motherboard but the RAID side of it needs some work on it, wether it be hardware or driver related.

Raumarik · 16 May 2007 at 23:34

Rangler said:
Hate to say it but i really dont think its an AV issue.
Ive tried it with 3 fresh OS installs same drivers OS SP and update levels
1st no AV
2nd Sophos
3rd Kaspersky based AV
Each time i got same results.

Anyone else find that if you run a HDTACJ test with HD's on the Gbyte ports that it BSOD's the OS.?

I really dont like the JMICRON drivers, if i have my 2 sata2 disks on the gbyte ports i find that i have issues with IDE cdroms unless i use the MS drivers.

This is a fantastic motherboard but the RAID side of it needs some work on it, wether it be hardware or driver related.

Nope I've tested it and the AV was causing a majority of my problems (McAfee - get it free with work!). Uninstalled it and everything was a lot faster, put it back on and we're slow again. Disable the server and again it's back to normal excellent speeds.

The SATA/Raid controllers are definately iffy though, initially after installing I had problems even accessing my second SATA drive, it simply wouldn't show up. reinstalled the gigabyte driver from the manufacturers site and suddenly it all kicked in, even though I'd used the one off the disk initially. There's something, just not right.

Jumblemo - you'll be find if you don't mind the possibility of troubleshooting for 10 mins if you have two drives and run into issues. I'm using the Intel SATA ports and things are fine, the 4 gigabyte ones seemed to cause a few problems though.