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How to "turn up" my Maxtor HDD transfer rate
Not strictly a Windows 98 issue but here it is:
I have a Quantum Fireball 541 which transfers data at a very slow rate according to HdTach. Is there a utility for turning the rate up to the expected rate that I can download, I have powermax but it does not include this function and neither does Maxblast according to the blurb. Regards, ern. |
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How to "turn up" my Maxtor HDD transfer rate
In the Device Manager, click on the drive under Disk Drives and make sure
that the DMA setting, if available, is enabled. How much RAM does the PC have? It could be that the hard drive isn't slow, but appears slow because the system has to use the virtual-memory swap file intensely because of a shortage of available RAM memory or an inadequate setting for virtual memory under the Performance tab of System Properties (System in the Control Panel). Eric, PC Buyer Beware! http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/ "ernie" wrote: Not strictly a Windows 98 issue but here it is: I have a Quantum Fireball 541 which transfers data at a very slow rate according to HdTach. Is there a utility for turning the rate up to the expected rate that I can download, I have powermax but it does not include this function and neither does Maxblast according to the blurb. Regards, ern. |
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How to "turn up" my Maxtor HDD transfer rate
ernie wrote:
Not strictly a Windows 98 issue but here it is: I have a Quantum Fireball 541 which transfers data at a very slow rate according to HdTach. Is there a utility for turning the rate up to the expected rate that I can download, I have powermax but it does not include this function and neither does Maxblast according to the blurb. Regards, ern. ernie, what does Your hdtach.log say after you run the test? For 'Read Only' mine says: HD Tach version 2.70 Drive: Maxtor 6B250R0 BAH4 Random Access time: 8.8ms CPU utilization: 9.3% Read Burst speed: 114.3MB/s Average read speed: 59MB/s (max 87.8MB/s - min 55.8MB/s = average: 59.2MB/s Rick |
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How to "turn up" my Maxtor HDD transfer rate
Is this drive SCZI? How much free space do you have? Are you running W98 or
an earlier OS?Do you have less than 64MB RAM? DTV "ernie" wrote in message ... Not strictly a Windows 98 issue but here it is: I have a Quantum Fireball 541 which transfers data at a very slow rate according to HdTach. Is there a utility for turning the rate up to the expected rate that I can download, I have powermax but it does not include this function and neither does Maxblast according to the blurb. Regards, ern. |
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How to "turn up" my Maxtor HDD transfer rate
Thank you Eric,
yes, DMA is checked for the drive in Device Manager. The PC has 128MB of RAM and the swap file in-use figure is currently 8MB according to System Monitor. I am using the utility HDTach to test the "Read Burst" speed which is returning a figure 15.3MB/sec while a similar drive on the same cable/controller, set as master, returns 30.3MB/sec which is what I expected from both of them. I have a utility from Western Digital (Dlgudma) which does what I want but, obviously, this drive is a Maxtor and I find The Maxtor website so buggy that I thought I would check here to see if anyone knew if they offered a similar thing. Thanks for you help, ern. "Eric" wrote in message ... In the Device Manager, click on the drive under Disk Drives and make sure that the DMA setting, if available, is enabled. How much RAM does the PC have? It could be that the hard drive isn't slow, but appears slow because the system has to use the virtual-memory swap file intensely because of a shortage of available RAM memory or an inadequate setting for virtual memory under the Performance tab of System Properties (System in the Control Panel). Eric, PC Buyer Beware! http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/ "ernie" wrote: Not strictly a Windows 98 issue but here it is: I have a Quantum Fireball 541 which transfers data at a very slow rate according to HdTach. Is there a utility for turning the rate up to the expected rate that I can download, I have powermax but it does not include this function and neither does Maxblast according to the blurb. Regards, ern. |
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How to "turn up" my Maxtor HDD transfer rate
"Rick Chauvin" wrote in message ... ernie wrote: Not strictly a Windows 98 issue but here it is: I have a Quantum Fireball 541 which transfers data at a very slow rate according to HdTach. Is there a utility for turning the rate up to the expected rate that I can download, I have powermax but it does not include this function and neither does Maxblast according to the blurb. Regards, ern. ernie, what does Your hdtach.log say after you run the test? For 'Read Only' mine says: HD Tach version 2.70 Drive: Maxtor 6B250R0 BAH4 Random Access time: 8.8ms CPU utilization: 9.3% Read Burst speed: 114.3MB/s Average read speed: 59MB/s (max 87.8MB/s - min 55.8MB/s = average: 59.2MB/s Rick Rick, thanks for highlighting the logging function, but it ain't working. I get: HD Tach version 2.61 Drive: GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE47 and that's it. As I said in my reply to Eric, there is another drive on the cable which gives more appropriate results (but also gives a blank log) the figures being 15.3MB/sec for the duffer(slave) and 30.3MB/sec for the master. Also, I got this drive out of my other computer where it was attached to a controller card and was similarly slow compared with the rate it should have achieved and was achieved by other drives. I should say that I was trying to get this drive to do some reporting of it's SMART status but had no luck but a worry is that the utility for that changed something in the drive to cause this performance decrease. Regards, ern. |
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How to "turn up" my Maxtor HDD transfer rate
No, it's IDE and the free space on the system drive is 697MB which is not
this drive . The system drive does not have this problem, transfer rate for this drive 15.3MB/sec and for system drive 30.3MB/sec. I have Windows 98SE and 128MB of RAM. Any Ideas present themselves? ern. "Satellite Man" wrote in message ... Is this drive SCZI? How much free space do you have? Are you running W98 or an earlier OS?Do you have less than 64MB RAM? DTV "ernie" wrote in message ... Not strictly a Windows 98 issue but here it is: I have a Quantum Fireball 541 which transfers data at a very slow rate according to HdTach. Is there a utility for turning the rate up to the expected rate that I can download, I have powermax but it does not include this function and neither does Maxblast according to the blurb. Regards, ern. |
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ernie wrote:
Rick, thanks for highlighting the logging function, but it ain't working. I get: HD Tach version 2.61 Drive: GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE47 Get yourself the correct and latest Free version for 9x which is v2.7 and you can get it here - just press the blue download button on this page: http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public...uest=HdTach2.7 ..btw, this v2.7 is the last version that will work for W9x... ...however this page has the correct screenshots showing the Read Burst Speed in MB as it really is instead of the old way: http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public...st=HdTachUsage and that's it. As I said in my reply to Eric, there is another drive on the cable which gives more appropriate results (but also gives a blank log) the figures being 15.3MB/sec for the duffer(slave) and 30.3MB/sec for the master. Also, I got this drive out of my other computer where it was attached to a controller card and was similarly slow compared with the rate it should have achieved and was achieved by other drives. If 15 & 30 MB/s are what you expected, and that may be about right for your spec's if you have an older setup. Mine is a new setup with all the latest hardware and I get quite a bit better and I don't expect many people to match this unless they use the same technology and setup - then yes they absolutely can; anyway here's a screenshot of mine I just now took again and even though it's a 250 GB hard drive it only shows the 8 GB C:\ partition of which as default whatever partition the program is installed on is what it checks and so that's why it's showing only 8 GB spread. http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6607/mine5sg.gif ..I can see mine is almost twice as fast even as what they show on their own test screenshots shown in the second link above, but again that's mine and you cannot expect your old setup to be like that at all. I should say that I was trying to get this drive to do some reporting of it's SMART status but had no luck but a worry is that the utility for that changed something in the drive to cause this performance decrease. These v2 versions do not check SMART status or have anything to do with it really. I suspect your 'drive itself' is just as fast itself as it always was, either that or your OS installation itself now has issues with it and the problem lies therein, but before you can give any kind of accurate comparison of a before and after - you would of had to do a before test to get the numbers of what they were when you thought it was faster. There are many many things you can do to 'soup up' and make your system faster, everything from updating your MB, System RAM, Processor, along with a new ATA133 7200 rpm 16MB cache hard drive - and most importantly to run that HD from is to use a modern pci Controller Card to run it, like the ATA133 one that Promise makes - and then all coupled together you can achieve a very fast setup that would rock your world. ...and so back to your original question ernie: How to "turn up" my Maxtor HDD transfer rate The truth is when it comes to your Quantum Fireball drive (what are the listed specs of it anyway?) ...but if it's a new ATA 133 or even ATA 100 drive you cannot expect to do much with it unless you make the changes I've outlined above, and certainly you cannot expect to come close to what the Hard Drive can do unless you give it a full clear range to be able to let it achieve near it's rated abilities; but realize ATA 133 is a marketing spec and not really achievable in a real environment - I don't know of anyone that can reach 133 ...but we came come close can't we vbg I just was reading the newspaper and Staples today is having a sale for an Ultra ATA133, 16 MB cache, 7200 rpm internal drive by Maxtor DiamondMax9 Plus, with an average seek time of about 9 ms This drive is excellent !!! I have the same one only that it's a 250GB size; anyway this drive was $300 not even a year ago, but today's sale has it at only $99 !!! ..if I didn't already have a pair of 250's I would surly get these too ...I just may still Rick Regards, ern. |
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How to "turn up" my Maxtor HDD transfer rate
...and ps I also meant to say, if you are running ATA100 and also using it's
40 wire ribbon cable, and on top of it running the other HD off it as Secondary - that is a disadvantages way to do that. (you can't have two master in the stock environment anyway) The proper way is ATA133 with its 80 wire cable greatly enhancing data transfer, as well as running each HD as Master specifically off of the two master ports that the Promise ATA 133 PCI Controller Card gives you and that's the beauty of that - and in that way you have a fighting chance... Also, imho&e, Let Windows Manage Virtual Memory and make no changes there! |
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set second drive as master on the secondary connector
should not be on the same cable "a similar drive on the same cable/controller, set as master" for fastest throughput -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://security.kolla.de AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "ernie" wrote in message ... Thank you Eric, yes, DMA is checked for the drive in Device Manager. The PC has 128MB of RAM and the swap file in-use figure is currently 8MB according to System Monitor. I am using the utility HDTach to test the "Read Burst" speed which is returning a figure 15.3MB/sec while a similar drive on the same cable/controller, set as master, returns 30.3MB/sec which is what I expected from both of them. I have a utility from Western Digital (Dlgudma) which does what I want but, obviously, this drive is a Maxtor and I find The Maxtor website so buggy that I thought I would check here to see if anyone knew if they offered a similar thing. Thanks for you help, ern. "Eric" wrote in message ... In the Device Manager, click on the drive under Disk Drives and make sure that the DMA setting, if available, is enabled. How much RAM does the PC have? It could be that the hard drive isn't slow, but appears slow because the system has to use the virtual-memory swap file intensely because of a shortage of available RAM memory or an inadequate setting for virtual memory under the Performance tab of System Properties (System in the Control Panel). Eric, PC Buyer Beware! http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/ "ernie" wrote: Not strictly a Windows 98 issue but here it is: I have a Quantum Fireball 541 which transfers data at a very slow rate according to HdTach. Is there a utility for turning the rate up to the expected rate that I can download, I have powermax but it does not include this function and neither does Maxblast according to the blurb. Regards, ern. |
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