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it's an ATA/100 controller, kinda useless though if you don't have ATA/100 drives however
well actually maybe not, it would add 4 more IDE slots, but if your hard drives are only udma/33 that's all they will go at, and if they are ata/66 that's all they will go at....
"Would you mind not standing on my chest, my hats on fire." - The Doctor
Thanks Brent, I should have added I have an IBM 40 gig GXP 60 and and a Deskstar 20 gig from my Gateway, but I'm kinda disappointed with the results from PCPitstop:
TIP > Unusually low disk performance
Drive C has an uncached speed of 2.87 megabytes per second.
Drive D has an uncached speed of 2 megabytes per second.
Drive E has an uncached speed of 2.06 megabytes per second.
Drive F has an uncached speed of 1.98 megabytes per second.
Drive G has an uncached speed of 0.87 megabytes per second.
Drive H has an uncached speed of 0.85 megabytes per second.
Drive I has an uncached speed of 0.82 megabytes per second.
For comparison, systems with the same CPU, clock speed, and memory size as this one have an average uncached speed of 3.94 MB/s .
System Specs:
P4C800-E- Deluxe
P4 3.2 Gig
Cornea 19" LCD Monitor
Antec 1030 Case
Win XP/Pro
Plextor 48/24/48
Plextor 708-A DVD
1 Meg Crucial DDR
ATI 9800 Pro
Antec 550 True Power PSU
hmmm....... well i know the IBM 60GXPs are extremely fast... i have 2 of them (though they are in RAID 0, i did some tests before i configured the array), and they can sustain 40MBps (peak sustained. not all the way across the platters. then again, no drive sustains its peak all the way across).
thats wicked fast for IDE. there may be a configuration problem. if i were you, i would d/l SiSoft Sandra from http://www.tweakfiles.com , and HDTach 2.61 from http://www.tcdlabs.com . sometimes certain benchmarks dont like or report false readings with some configurations.
i would get a second or third benchmark's "opinion" before investing money (when it may not really be needed).
"I think this day will go down as a black day in the history of mankind"
-Leo Szilard - December 2, 1942, following the first successful nuclear fission test.
Thanks Smaier, tha sandra benchmark was "24530" for the "C" drive. That's as far as I went....t
System Specs:
P4C800-E- Deluxe
P4 3.2 Gig
Cornea 19" LCD Monitor
Antec 1030 Case
Win XP/Pro
Plextor 48/24/48
Plextor 708-A DVD
1 Meg Crucial DDR
ATI 9800 Pro
Antec 550 True Power PSU
for kicks, i would still pick up and run HDTach. it actually plots the throughput across the platters for you (in the form of a graph), rather than just giving you a number.
which actually brings up something. since some of the partitions may be located in physically different areas of the platters, there would be a sustained read/write throughput difference that would/could vary greatly from the peak for the drive. like more towards the center of the platters.... where the actual speed at which the clusters pass under the head at a much slower speed than at say.... more towards the outer edges of the platters).
anyways, i really like the data HDTach gives you. CPU usage, burst speeds, etc. SiSoft is a great all-in-one, and is unmatched in some areas, but HDTach is better for hdd tests (IMO).
"I think this day will go down as a black day in the history of mankind"
-Leo Szilard - December 2, 1942, following the first successful nuclear fission test.
