Slow HDD?

[celliott]

Sisters PC has been quite slow for a while so I decided to run some tests on it.

Intel Celeron (Tualatin) 1.1GHz
256MB PC133 SDRAM CAS3
DFI Via Motherboard
Maxtor 40GB 5400RPM

Does this seem very low to you, or is this ok since its quite an old system? Im sure this cant be right, and don't know whats causing this.

The transfer mode for Primary IDE in device manager is "Multi-Word DMA Mode 2"

 

[celliott]

hmm ok. I wasn't sure as the drive is less than a year old, suppose its no comparison to my 200MB/s+ SATAII drive

 

[celliott]

Its a socket 370 mobo, in the bios I can set PIO Mode 1-4 or DMA Mode: Auto, both are set to auto currently. Yep thats with the 4 in 1 drivers installed.