I recently purchased a 160 Gb Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 Sata II drive and connected to my Abit NF7-s v2.0 (support Sata Mode I only) motherboard. While Feature Tool shows a ATA-6 transfer mode enabled, Sandra only report a ATA-5 mode.
Testing the drive I had max transfer rate of 62 MB/s( drive empty with Windows XP only) and 44 Mb/s max speed with (1/2 drive capacity occupied).
Just wondering if this is the max speed I can achieve from this drive.
Should this drive run faster on this mobo which only support Sata I mode ?
I have a DVD-RW drive on IDE mode in IDE 1. IDE 2 slot is unsed.
Please advice.
Testing the drive I had max transfer rate of 62 MB/s( drive empty with Windows XP only) and 44 Mb/s max speed with (1/2 drive capacity occupied).
Just wondering if this is the max speed I can achieve from this drive.
Should this drive run faster on this mobo which only support Sata I mode ?
I have a DVD-RW drive on IDE mode in IDE 1. IDE 2 slot is unsed.
Please advice.