Hard Drive under performing

Samfau2 · 21 Nov 2008 at 00:43

HDD is Seagate 500GB SATA II 7200RPM 32MB Cache.

Now i thought that SATA II had a max data transfer speed of 300mb/s, but im getting no where near that and my access time seems to be a little large. Everest reports my average seek should be 8.5ms

Used HD Tune Pro to benchmark it (only read) cant run write benchmark because youve got to remove all partitions or some rubbish. Anyway, wouldnt that be even slower?

Anything up here or am i fussing?

Le_Petit_Lapin · 21 Nov 2008 at 01:16

Looks fine? :confused:

Samfau2 · 21 Nov 2008 at 01:23

shouldn't i expect transfer rates to be a bit closer to 300?

Nick1881 · 21 Nov 2008 at 01:26

Only if you had a few of them in raid. 110 max is pretty good for 1 drive.

Samfau2 · 21 Nov 2008 at 01:30

YAY, thanks guys, speaking of raid i think i shall purchase an identical 500gb and run them together, when i next do a fresh install. I filled most of this one way quicker than i thought i would.

ns400r · 21 Nov 2008 at 01:58

The quoted 300mb/s is the max speed of the SATAII interface and not of the individual hard drive attached to it.

Samfau2 · 21 Nov 2008 at 14:21

that makes more sense

EsaT · 21 Nov 2008 at 15:04

That's very high STR for such small drive, best 7200rpm drives achieve slightly above 90MBps avg. STR.

Also you have to remember that most of the time STR has very little to do with practical performance. Seagates have long had high STR but often crappy to mediocre practical performance because of firmware deficiencies.