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How to "turn up" my Maxtor HDD transfer rate
Rick,
I found a bootable floppy with udmaupdt.exe (a Maxtor utility) on it, I must have used it to restrict the drive because the CMD card was allowing a too high transfer rate. A re-run has changed the mode to UDMA4 which the Intel controller on the mobo can modulate to give a burst figure of 30MB/sec which is what I expected. Sorry for the head scratching. Regards, ern. "Rick Chauvin" wrote in message ... ernie wrote: I hooked the drives up to my CMD controller card and got a gratifying increase in read burst speed on the master, a Quantum Fireball lct10, up to 57.9MB/sec. That is fab. Sadly the Maxtor did not budge from 15.3MB/sec. Thank you for your advises, I guess the drive may be fubared except that it passes all other tests and I paid good money for it, I am unwilling to chuck it out. Regards, ern. Great then, and nice work ernie. Actually I didn't mean to focus just on promise, although they are the best, but any decent pci controller card will offer inherent benefits in this area. Also I wanted to mention of the three things I suggested to do yesterday that I unintentionally left out one other very Important thing - and that of course is the main Processor engine (MB specs too, etc) which are as important as # 1 & 2 - and is the driving force behind faster data transfer rates; and you can see those combinations offer great possibilities as my previous screenshot earlier showing my own 112 MB/s @ 8 ms readings. I'm not sure what you did with or what else happened to your Maxtor 2B020H1 drive to cause it to perform at 15 which does seem verrry slow. I imagine today you also tried hooking it up "singly" all by itself onto the pci controller card - and it still gives you that reading? Here's the link to your 2B020H1 that you wanted, not that it will help: http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Ma...1dfe29dd10a191 346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Support/Product%20Support/Desktop%20Storage/Maxto r%20Other/Fireball%20541DX Your current lct10 seems even less capable than your older 541DX so you would expect the 2B020H1 to be even better, but here's your older drive. http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Ma...1dfe29dd10a191 346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Support/Product%20Support/Desktop%20Storage/Quant um%C2%AE%20Drives/Fireball%20lct10 But as I mentioned before you can get a 300GB DiamondMaxPlus Ultra ATA133, UltraMB cache, 7200 rpm internal drive by Maxtor this week on sale for only $99 and so... ...but the only thing would be is if your CMD controller is new enough to support it like the Promise card is. Rick "Rick Chauvin" wrote in message ... ernie wrote: Rick, I have tried the SMART utility but it gives no way to tweak this drive Of course it doesn't and I never personally said or suggested you use any SMART program at all, on the contrary. Most SMART monitors imo cause unneeded panic since they try to predict when SMART in the future will predict a failure. SMART conditions are in themselves predictions, and there's no need to monitor the predict of predictions - However, that said - if you even get any SMART prompts that the HD is in danger of failure, get the data off the drive, and buy a new one (or use SpinRite on it to see if you can recover any marked out bad sectors) ..but all this has nothing to do with making your HD faster in any direct way. You need New hardware. up, though it is reporting the UDMA as Mode 0, which is consistent with the HDTach result. Placing the drive as master on the secondary controller makes no difference. I was not sure what you meant by: I think that your main HD doing 30MB/sec that you said 'may be' normal, and I don't give much credence with your second drive hooked up like that. What are you using it for anyway - just storage. imho, I don't care to run two ata drives at once 'live' like that. My only suggestion previously or going forward to you is if you want better data transfer rates is to get new hardware, and in this order to get the ATA 133 Promise pci controller card I thought I had mentioned to you, as well a brand New ATA133 7200 rpm drive I also mentioned (as well if you can upgrade your RAM to at least 512) ..but as a result of the first two then you will be on your way near UDMA6 depending, and your HDTach will read at least triple than what you get now.. Rick |
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How to "turn up" my Maxtor HDD transfer rate
ernie wrote:
Rick, I found a bootable floppy with udmaupdt.exe (a Maxtor utility) on it, I must have used it to restrict the drive because the CMD card was allowing a too high transfer rate. A re-run has changed the mode to UDMA4 which the Intel controller on the mobo can modulate to give a burst figure of 30MB/sec which is what I expected. Sorry for the head scratching. Regards, ern. Glad you figured out what you did wrong, and have it working normal again. Rick |
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