hd tech result for wd sataII

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I have just bought Western Digital Caviar SE16 250Gb 16Mb Cache Hard Disk Drive SATAII 300MB and got this result with hd tech

Random access 13.4ms
Average speed 55.5 mb
burst speed 167 mb
cpu utilization 2%

Are these results fine or should i get high burst rate and one more thing i am running this wd hhd as a single standard ide with maxtor 250 gb pata hdd
 
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Burst rate can vary greatly depending on various factors, including whether the drive and controller both support 300MB/sec transfer rate or not, as well as the particular traits of the chipset/controller in use. In practice, burst makes little difference, so don't worry too much about it. Yours seem fine to me.
 
Here's my 3200KS

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youll never see the difference on burst speed i tested it on my drive i set it on sata 1 then sata 2 the burst speeds were different but no difference in windows loading or games etc
 
jaykay said:
youll never see the difference on burst speed i tested it on my drive i set it on sata 1 then sata 2 the burst speeds were different but no difference in windows loading or games etc
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When I cloned over my 80GB 7200.7 to the 250gb 7200.10 (SATA1 to SATA2) I see a faster windows boot, faster app loading and faster windows response. The HDTACH results also verify this observation!
 
mrk said:
When I cloned over my 80GB 7200.7 to the 250gb 7200.10 (SATA1 to SATA2) I see a faster windows boot, faster app loading and faster windows response. The HDTACH results also verify this observation!
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That's to be expected, the 7200.10 will have a vastly superior sustained transfer rate than the 7200.7. It's that which is giving you the improved load times, not the improved burst rate by going to SATA2.
 
Hmm makes sense. I'm just doing a long hdtach test as I just uninstalled diskeeper and am defragging using the xp defragger t see what the differences are.


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Here we go, I'm not quite sure what the spikes are but oh well!

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My windows takes 2 mins and 10 sec to fully load which i think is bit slow considering i just install this windows 8 days ago and while starting windows its not like my hdd is loading widnows all the time for 10 or 12 secs i just get windows xp logo screen and then it starts loading windows.
 
inam22 said:
My windows takes 2 mins and 10 sec to fully load which i think is bit slow considering i just install this windows 8 days ago and while starting windows its not like my hdd is loading widnows all the time for 10 or 12 secs i just get windows xp logo screen and then it starts loading windows.
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What's the model of HDD ?
 
mrk said:
Here we go, I'm not quite sure what the spikes are but oh well!
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The spikes are likely to be access to the disk by other programs during the test, these delay the return of data to HDTach which is interpreted as a reduced transfer rate.

inam22 said:
My windows takes 2 mins and 10 sec to fully load which i think is bit slow considering i just install this windows 8 days ago and while starting windows its not like my hdd is loading widnows all the time for 10 or 12 secs i just get windows xp logo screen and then it starts loading windows.
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There are plenty of things which will delay windows loading, disabling any devices you have but don't use (serial or parallel ports etc) can speed things up as Windows doesn't need to load the drivers. The only real way to tell is to use Bootvis to analyse the boot process but it's far from the most intuitive piece of software.
 
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