slow performance in raptor?

wdEvA

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hey guys.. i've recently installed a WD360GD raptor and recently experience with slow peformance..
the bootup time was kinda slow, took a lot of bars in the winxp loading screens and when i launch an app or firefox,it does lags for awhile before it shows up..

i'm using registry mechanic and diskeeper10 to keep my registry clean and defrag my paritions often..

how do i increase the performance of the drive? it should peform better than this right?
i've heard people loading windows with 1-2bars on the loading screen only..

Thanks
 
hmm.. i went to deivce manager, under nvidia nforce4 serial ata controller properties, and did a speed test on my raptor and seagate 7200 250gb drive..

Raptor:
Transfermode: Serial ATA Generation 1-1.5G
Enable read caching (CHECKED)
Enable write caching (CHECKED)
Enable command queueing (UNCHECKED)

Test Results (in millions of bytes per second)
Theroretical Limit: 150.0
Burst Speed: 99.0
Substained speed: 55.6

Seagate drive:

Transfermode: Serial ATA Generation 1-1.5G
Enable read caching (CHECKED)
Enable write caching (CHECKED)
Enable command queueing (CHECKED)

Test Results (in millions of bytes per second)
Theroretical Limit: 150.0
Burst Speed: 107.7
Substained speed: 67.2

OR

Transfermode: Serial ATA Generation 1-1.5G
Enable read caching (CHECKED)
Enable write caching (CHECKED)
Enable command queueing (UNCHECKED)

Test Results (in millions of bytes per second)
Theroretical Limit: 150.0
Burst Speed: 107.7
Substained speed: 67.1

i've another 160gb IDE maxtor in my system too..
hm seems like the seagate is faster than my raptor???
 
nope its not a .10, should be a .8 or .9 not ver sure though..

hmm. but is my raptor supposed to perform that speed? the normal windows usage seems slow, if yes, then i guess i'll sell it off and get a normal sata hdd..

hmm.. i cant get the seagate to run at sata2 speed as my mobo onli supports sata1
 
hmm. so if i were to get a .10, to be my OS, i should see around the same performance as my current raptor? but at lesser noise?
 
hmm seems like my ide maxtor was casing the slow performance that i feel, after taking the ide out, it seems a lot better while using my system..

so with a IDE, it will affect?
 
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