SATA II Speeds

bobby_valentino · 1 May 2008 at 14:07

Hi guys I was just wondering if people who have a motherboard capable of SATA II and a HDD that has a SATA II interface (in non RAID mode), if you could please do a benchmark test using HD Tune, and tell me your scores i.e.

Minimum transfer rate
maximum transfer rate
Average transfer rate

access time
burst rate
cpu usage

TIA guys!

helmutcheese · 1 May 2008 at 14:17

You mean SATA300 ? (there is no such hardware term as SATAII)

My Raptor is SATA150 (makes no difference to a single drive anyhow)

My WD MY Book is SATA300.

bobby_valentino · 1 May 2008 at 14:26

Average is 70MB/Sec...is that a typical SATA300 speed?

helmutcheese · 1 May 2008 at 14:27

Probably normal, not sure what HDD is inside the WD My Book and you do get faster HDD's.

bobby_valentino · 1 May 2008 at 14:37

This is what I got...would this be a typical SATA300 speed?

helmutcheese · 1 May 2008 at 14:38

Jesus, you have a lot of background Activity going on there, looks ill. lol

bobby_valentino · 1 May 2008 at 14:39

Yeah I was doing it while I had many applications open lol...its like 95MB/Sec slow

bobby_valentino · 1 May 2008 at 17:21

What would be the typical burst speed without any RAID for a SATA300 320GB drive?

byteagig · 1 May 2008 at 18:46

western digital 320gb

bobby_valentino · 1 May 2008 at 19:08

Wow, 37MB/Sec faster than mine! Any tips on improving the transfer rate? (Iv kept all the preinstalled rubbish that came with the PC, and its not been defragged or anything at all, im using around 100GB of the 320). Do you reckon if I did a clean format of the HD and then ran the benchmarker it would show any gain?

balls · 1 May 2008 at 19:18

bobby_valentino said:
Wow, 37MB/Sec faster than mine! Any tips on improving the transfer rate? (Iv kept all the preinstalled rubbish that came with the PC, and its not been defragged or anything at all, im using around 100GB of the 320). Do you reckon if I did a clean format of the HD and then ran the benchmarker it would show any gain?

It shouldn't do, the read test only checks the drive itself not its content

bobby_valentino · 1 May 2008 at 19:25

What are the more important figures to be looking at here ... the burst speed or the average read time?

helmutcheese · 1 May 2008 at 20:36

SUSTAINED AVERAGE READ/WRITES, Burst mean nothing, its CACHE to HDD.

deuse · 1 May 2008 at 21:50

byteagig said:
western digital 320gb

Whats your pc spec mate.
I cant get my 320 AAKS to 92.8

mine will only do 68mbs on a GA P35 DS4

NickK · 1 May 2008 at 22:08

deuse said:
Whats your pc spec mate.
I cant get my 320 AAKS to 92.8
mine will only do 68mbs on a GA P35 DS4

It depends on how full the drive is too perhaps.

byteagig · 1 May 2008 at 22:09

deuse said:
Whats your pc spec mate.
I cant get my 320 AAKS to 92.8
mine will only do 68mbs on a GA P35 DS4

hi, its a E8400 @ 3.8, 2gb crucial ballistix 1066, dfi lanparty p35 dk t2rs
its a new drive only a week old, not partitioned and running xp sp2. i like this drive its the fastest one ive had so far!

byteagig · 1 May 2008 at 22:10

NickK said:
It depends on how full the drive is too perhaps.

its got 47gb on it so far, mainly games

deuse · 1 May 2008 at 22:25

byteagig said:
hi, its a E8400 @ 3.8, 2gb crucial ballistix 1066, dfi lanparty p35 dk t2rs
its a new drive only a week old, not partitioned and running xp sp2. i like this drive its the fastest one ive had so far!

Thanks.
Mine is partioned for dual boot so that maybe it.
Also GA emailed me ages ago and said the Intel sata ports only
work at UDMA Mode 5 and not Mode 6.

I will watch out for this when I get my next GA mobo.

byteagig · 1 May 2008 at 22:32

according to hdtune mine supports UDMA mode 6 but its running at mode 5

deuse · 2 May 2008 at 06:45

Thanks for taking the time for that byteagig

My firmware version is 12.01B02 so it looks like asking WD for a new firmware version.
Cant seem to find one on there site so I will email them asap.