AV Rated Disk Speeds

[darkufo]

Hi All,

I've seen in a lot of products that they recommend disk transfer speeds of 5Mb-10Mb seconds sustained.

I tested my two 60GB IDE (7,200rpm) drives out, and I'm getting around 5MB seconds.

This seems a little slow for 7,200rpm drives.

Can anyone confirm/deny that this is indeed slow, and if so anyone have any tips about improving performance.

PC is Windows XP Pro using 512MB of Memory on a 1.5Mhz P4

Thanks in advance

[Mavrick]

Some of the speed depends on the drive itself… Not all 7200RPM drives are equal. The two fastest ULTRA-100 drives out now are the IBM DeskStar and the Western Digital Special Edition Series (8MB CACHE!).

Check to make sure your controllers are using DMA in the device manager.

Last, remember IDE drives are not the fastest drives out there. SCSI is still faster and more $$$ than IDE.

[sterno]

Some of the speed depends on the drive itself… Not all 7200RPM drives are equal.

This is more true than most people realize. Some current large 5400RPM drives end up being just as fast as some of the smaller 7200RPM models thanks to the higher platter density, and at the same time they use less power, make less noise, and run a little cooler.