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SATA tricks?

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dante2010

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Hi,

I'm new to the world of SATA hard drives. I've got an Asus A8N-SLI Premium motherboard with a WD 250 16MB drive.

What I'm wondering is if there are any tweaks I should know of to get the optimal performance from the drive? Like bios settings to change, etc.

Or if the drive is up and running, am I pretty much good to go with it?
 
shouldn't be much to tweak AFAIK
I think there's only one WD drive with NCQ
if it's a SATA 2 drive, you might check to see if it's plugged into a SATA 2 port and it's enabled, not that it's going to make any difference....

run some benches with HD Tach to see how it's doing
 
i taught my sata drives to sit and roll over :p welcome to the SATA world ull love it
 
My WD2500KS, on an A8N SLI Deluxe, outperforms Raptors (73GB ones too :eek: ) in other systems. I didn't have to do anything special, just plug it in and use the generic Windows ATA drivers. It's a beast of a drive, and you don't have to do anything special with it to enjoy great storage performance :cool:
 
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