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weird one this
a friend of mine has just built a new pc using Q6600, P5K Mobo and 2 x 320gb seagate SATA II hard drives.
He gets a windows performance score of 5.5 for the hard drives
my pc, X2-3800, NF4 and 2 x 250gb Maxtor diamond Max drives gets a hard drive performance score of 5.8!
What gives, i thought SATA drives were meant to be faster?
On these results alone i have ordered components for my new pc Abit IP35 Pro, E6750, 8800GT, P182SE case etc, but i decided to keep my hard drives and save myself a little money for now (mainly to keep wifey happy) have i done the right thing.
a friend of mine has just built a new pc using Q6600, P5K Mobo and 2 x 320gb seagate SATA II hard drives.
He gets a windows performance score of 5.5 for the hard drives
my pc, X2-3800, NF4 and 2 x 250gb Maxtor diamond Max drives gets a hard drive performance score of 5.8!
What gives, i thought SATA drives were meant to be faster?
On these results alone i have ordered components for my new pc Abit IP35 Pro, E6750, 8800GT, P182SE case etc, but i decided to keep my hard drives and save myself a little money for now (mainly to keep wifey happy) have i done the right thing.