Messages in this thread |  | | From | Dieter Nützel <> | Subject | Re: ECS K7S5A: IDE performance | Date | Thu, 29 Aug 2002 02:05:56 +0200 |
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Chris Friesen wrote: > Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > > I just thought it'd be much more with an ATA100. I got more or > > less the same with my earlier motherboard, an ASUS A7APro, and > > without ATA66 - which would print a lot of CRC errors at boot > > time if enabled in the BIOS. The K7S5A doesn't print any and is > > rock solid. > > If you're reading more than the size of your on-drive buffer then you'll be > limited by the speed at which the information can be grabbed off the > drive--in your case, 38.1MB/s, which is quite good.
IBM (Yes, I konw...;-) IC35L060AVER07 (the whole family) is at 45,6 MB/s. Maxtor 80 GB nearly the same.
System: AMD 750 (ATA4) and 760 MPX (ATA5).
> ATA33/66/100/133 only makes a significant difference in speed when you're > reading from the on-drive cache.
Or maybe ATA RAID...;-)
Regards, Dieter
-- Dieter Nützel Graduate Student, Computer Science
University of Hamburg Department of Computer Science @home: Dieter.Nuetzel at hamburg.de (replace at with @)
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