do these HD TACH scores look ok

[AMD_Gamer]

just built the system in my sig and im not sure if these scores are good or not the SATA looks ok but is 33mb/s for an IDE drive ok?

Western Digital 300GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, MODEL WD3000JB

http://www.iupload.net/022005/hdtt1.jpg

Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM SATA Hard Drive

http://www.iupload.net/022005/hdtt2.jpg

[defakto]

Raptor speeds look good the other one not so good, for a drive that new you should be getting much faster rates on it, pata or not. Are you running it on an 80 pin cable? Do you have it on a cable with a cd rom drive?

If not an 80 pin cable put it on an 80 pin cable.

If it is with a cdrom drive, move the cd rom drive to the other channel and you should get alot better performance. I've got a 250 gig WD sata drive and it averages 50 mb/s and sata isn't much faster, you should be getting better than what you are.

[AMD_Gamer]

Raptor speeds look good the other one not so good, for a drive that new you should be getting much faster rates on it, pata or not. Are you running it on an 80 pin cable? Do you have it on a cable with a cd rom drive?

If not an 80 pin cable put it on an 80 pin cable.

If it is with a cdrom drive, move the cd rom drive to the other channel and you should get alot better performance. I've got a 250 gig WD sata drive and it averages 50 mb/s and sata isn't much faster, you should be getting better than what you are.

nope everything is on its own channel

also is my SATA ratptor good to go? i never installed any SATA drivers or anything :confused:

[defakto]

Dont' always need to install new drivers. Something isn't right for your 300gig though, transfer rate seems a bit low, far too flat a rate too, most trail of a bit as they reach the end of the drive, which leads me to think you;'re not getting full performance from the drive. is it pata? How do you have the jumpers set on it? Is it on an 80 wire cable?

You're raptor is benching right up there with what mine does, touch faster, so no worries there.

[AMD_Gamer]

Dont' always need to install new drivers. Something isn't right for your 300gig though, transfer rate seems a bit low, far too flat a rate too, most trail of a bit as they reach the end of the drive, which leads me to think you;'re not getting full performance from the drive. is it pata? How do you have the jumpers set on it? Is it on an 80 wire cable?

You're raptor is benching right up there with what mine does, touch faster, so no worries there.

yeah i dont think i have an 80ping cable i will fix that tomorrow, also im surprised my raptor justy works without having to install any drivers,

i have read that you need to install drivers for SATA drives?

[shaihulud]

If it is with a cdrom drive, move the cd rom drive to the other channel and you should get alot better performance this is a fallacy. all pata controllers are independently timed. what people have manipulated and confused is the fact how windows works with ata devices. normally, ide/atapi devices have to terminate the transfer before another one begins. with windows, since there are two interrupts, one per channel, it can queue the two channels concurrently. this is why you place devices in parallel rather than master/slave. this has become a common performance pratice. note, that having both devices on the same channel does not necessarly hurt the performance of transfers between the master and slave.

during the pio days of atapi devices, if it was attached to the same channel, pio would take precendance over dma. this was the very reason during the triton fx days to segregate and place the atapi on the secondary channel. note, since pio takes precedance and with atapi devices, although capable of dma, are in pio mode by default and must be configured for dma. this is for all windows.

[defakto]

So what your saying is it's not really a fallacy, it's just not common anymore?