Hard Drive Performance Issues

[thepominlaw]

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.

 

[rpstewart]

1) The Vista perfomance indexes bear less than no resemblence to the relative performance of configurations.

2) How are your disks configured compared to your friend's disks?

 

[thepominlaw]

no configuration just connected master and slave (mine). Neither of use are using raid

 

[mattyfez]

as above, windows performance isnt a reliable comparison tool.

you should use a hard drive benchmark software if you want to see a more realistic comparison.