Write speed on hard drives

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magbmw

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i decided to do some testing on how many megabytes per second can my hard drive write i have a maxtor 160 7200rpm and it was writing at about 12megs max...... the drive works fiene no problems at all the drive is an sata i have seen people running at about 50 megs per second.... i have a msi neo with prescott processor what settings do you think i need to change in order to use my drive to the maximun capacity? i am doing a lot of video editing and my render times are pretty long due to this

thanks
 
How are you arriving at 12MB/s? On a plain Windows test, fragmented disk, or a partition towards the tail end, this would be about right. It would also be about right for some of the more robust disk test apps that can use database or fileserver access patterns. The claims you see of high numbers are usually derived from theoretical tests, ones that use sustained, buffered, contiguous writes on the fastest parts of the disk.
 
Works for me. Been slammed from all sides of late; ~30 hours of responsibility for each 24 hour period, fun stuff.
 
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