SATA drive too slow!!

[Guest]

Hey all;

I have a gigabyte GA-8I848P-G mobo with a 3GHZ P4, a 120GB IDE drive
(Primary master) and a DVD burner and CD rom (Secondary master and slave).
The mobo has two SATA 150mb/s ports. I got a 250GB SATA drive, connected it.

the mother board detects it very fine.
my XP Pro- SP1 dectes it and format it to full capacity with no problem.

Now the problem is that when i copy any file from anywhere to this SATA
drive, i experience VERY LOW transfer speed. Transfers are in the range of
4mbyte/s!!

I tried updating the motherboard BIOS and chipset with no good.
I ran a benchmark on the hard disk, and it reported that the average
transfer should be at 50mb/s with burst rate arount 100mb/s.

I knew that these rates are ok for a SATA drive. But these rates are never
achieved in copy process..!! I only copy on 4mb/s!!!!

Any help??
Thanks
Hani

 

[Daniel Crichton]

Hani wrote on Thu, 18 May 2006 05:30:01 -0700:

Hey all;

I have a gigabyte GA-8I848P-G mobo with a 3GHZ P4, a 120GB IDE drive
(Primary master) and a DVD burner and CD rom (Secondary master and slave).
The mobo has two SATA 150mb/s ports. I got a 250GB SATA drive, connected
it.

the mother board detects it very fine.
my XP Pro- SP1 dectes it and format it to full capacity with no problem.

Now the problem is that when i copy any file from anywhere to this SATA
drive, i experience VERY LOW transfer speed. Transfers are in the range of
4mbyte/s!!

I tried updating the motherboard BIOS and chipset with no good.
I ran a benchmark on the hard disk, and it reported that the average
transfer should be at 50mb/s with burst rate arount 100mb/s.

I knew that these rates are ok for a SATA drive. But these rates are never
achieved in copy process..!! I only copy on 4mb/s!!!!

Any help??
Thanks
Hani

If you're coping from the DVD/CD drives, 4Mb/s is about right - that's
equivalent to a 32x speed CD drive transferring at maximum rate.

If you're getting this when copying from the IDE HDD drive to the SATA, then
it's possible that either the IDE drivers are causing problems, or you've
maybe got something in Windows itself causing the slowdown - for instance,
an anti-virus application that is scanning the files as they're being
transferred could cause a significant slowdown.

Dan

 

[Guest]

I agree with Dan, also you said that you updated BIOS/chipset, what about the
SATA raid drivers itself? is it intergraded?

 

[Cristiano Fantinati]

Use this program for disk speed test
http://www.estesoft.com/diskbenchmark