Q: I have just plugged in my two WD 1200JB: D and wanted to know what the best configuration . so far I have noticed that:
WD in “ATA100″ (one for RAID) has to write something up (23.1M ish) than WD in the “standard” ide1 channel (ish) 22.6M “
WD in” ATA100 ( one RAID) is considerably slower reading (38.7M ish) than in the WD “standard” ide1 channel (45.8M ish)
Anyone else see this?
Oh . I use an Asus A7V133 and not robbery, but, ultimately P
Will give that a whirl and the plus and minuses to see
Just repeat this on Win98SE and guess . . Promise Channel has read the same IDE channel and Writing is 2m / s FASTER
So XP I think I thank this.
Anyone know if there is a better XP driver that is different than the standard XP drivers?
Re:no surprise here.
promise has been in the ide controller business for a long long time.
Re:guy,
I think you understood my question/concern. Given that the "IDE" and the "RAID/ATA100IDE" are both supposed to be ATA100/UDMA5, I am surprise I am getting such a drastically different result. And thus my question.
And no, I am not using the RAID/ATA100 IDE channels as RAID yet. Was gonna think about it later (and now looks like a lot later…)
Re:I don't think people were understanding what your question was. If you are asking is Raid-0 faster then IDE, then yes it is, that is it's purpose. but if you are asking is there a difference between your two IDE channels or your two Raid channels then no they should be very close in speed.
Re:ATA100 is a type of IDE
EDIT: whoops, didn't see that guys previous post. Hehe
Re:<< wow you are such a n00b. >>
<< i/expressions/rolleye.gif:Q Holy Christ-You don't even know the basics and u spend your time adding faces in your post….!! Incredible ..! >>
Rough crowd….Care to explain what basics I am missing here?
The Asus A7V133 has 4 IDE ports, 2 are called "IDE"s while 2 more are called "RAID/Ultra ATA100 IDE". All four are capable of ATA100, but the latter two are supposed to be used for RAID. From everything I've read, I would expect the performance to be comparable for the channels. But what I saw was obvious not the case, and thus my question. I have ran ATTO a few times and the results were consistent.
Coincidently, I am running WinXP.
Re:Such helpful answers….
First of all IDE is the type of interface to the harddrive. ATA33, ATA66, ATA100 are protocols for data transfer on an IDE bus. So ATA100 is IDE. Someone can correct me here if they understand it better, but basically the numbers in the protocal stand for the maximum transfer rate in megabyteds per second. Almost always the transfer speed is limited by the harddrive and the drivers for the interface. I'm not sure exactly why your read speeds vary by that much. Probably just luck of the draw in the test. You might want to run the test 10 times and calculate an average speed. My guess would be that they are pretty close to the same.
Also, which drive has the OS on it. If the one without the OS is the faster one then that's the answer. Since the OS requires some read time, it will slow the test on the drive a bit.
Re:i/expressions/rolleye.gif:Q Holy Christ-You don't even know the basics and u spend your time adding faces in your post….!! Incredible ..!
Re:wow you are such a n00b.
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